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Topic: LAW

dispossess

 verb
     
dis‧pos‧sess [transitive usually passive]
PGSCL to take property or land away from someone
be dispossessed of something
Many black South Africans had been dispossessed of their homes.
—dispossession noun [uncountable]
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