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单词 dispossess
释义
dispossess
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˌdɪs.pəˈzes/us
/ˌdɪs.pəˈzes/
to takeproperty,especiallybuildingsorland, away from someone or agroupofpeople:
剥夺，夺去（财产，尤指房屋或土地）
A lot ofpeoplewere dispossessedoftheirhomesduring thecivilwar.内战期间很多人都失去了家园。
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repossess
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Taking things away from someone or somewhere
  • appropriate
  • bear away
  • confiscate
  • confiscation
  • creamsomething/someoneoff
  • debug
  • drain
  • expropriation
  • extractive
  • get off
  • impound
  • infringe on/uponsomething
  • relieve
  • rootsomething/someoneout
  • routsomeoneout
  • seize
  • shelf
  • stripping
  • suck
  • sweep
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dispossession
(Definition ofdispossessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

dispossess| American Dictionary

dispossess
verb[T]
us
/ˌdɪs·pəˈzes/
toforcesomeone to give up thepossessionof ahouse,land, or otherproperty:
Manypeoplewere dispossessed oftheirhomesduring thewar.
(Definition ofdispossessfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdispossess

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It is the latter which enables him to 'dispossess' foragers.
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The maintenance of such concepts in everyday practice and experience of space was less important than for the smaller tenantry and the dispossessed.
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The hedge did notdispossesson its own.
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Who among us is not weighed upon by such factors - that is, who among us, excluding the dispossessed, poor, or homeless?
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The hard core resulted from the neglect of frail, isolated, sick and dispossessed elderly people.
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This, if actually implemented, is likely todispossesswomen of their existing rights in matrilineal-matrilocal areas, like those described in this paper.
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Men often tried to use such juridical arguments todispossesstheir female relatives.
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In them we see much more than an interaction between rich and poor, possessors and the dispossessed.
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One can almost be absurd and ask how one can be dispossessed of land that one does not really 'own'.
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The removal of ownership from a given notion also dispossessed agency, leaving the direction to be determined by the establishers and definers of said notion.
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Scholars once believed that privatization had dispossessed the peasantry on a massive scale (' pauperization '), but this view is no longer widely accepted.
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This undermines confidence in the pauperization hypothesis, the view that privatization necessarily dispossessed the indigenous peasantry.
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The hedge, used as an instrument of dispossession, now becomes a vital resource for many of the dispossessed.
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Women are therefore disproportionately dispossessed by oil exploitation.
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These include the intelligentsia, the traditional and modern middle classes, the bazaaris, and the dispossessed.
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