dispossess

• Jemanden zwingen, seinen Besitz, sein Eigentum oder seine Rechte aufzugeben, oft durch rechtliche oder gewaltsame Mittel; auch jemanden aus seinem Haus oder Land vertreiben.

A verb meaning to deprive someone of property, possessions, or rights, often through legal or forceful means.

1. Deprive of propertyC1formal

   To take away someone's property, land, or possessions, often by legal or official means.

   Eigentum entziehen

   • The government dispossessed the landowners to build the new highway.
   • Many families were dispossessed of their homes during the war.
   • The court ordered the company to dispossess the illegal occupants.

   Synonymeconfiscatedeprivedivestexpropriateseizestrip

   Antonymebestowendowgrantinvestvest