Antonyms for dispossess
ˌdɪs pəˈzɛsdis·pos·sess

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1. dispossessverb

   deprive of the possession of real estate

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1. dispossessverb

   Synonyms:
   dislodge, oust, eject, evict, dispropriate, disseize, remove, depose

How to use dispossess in a sentence?

1. Sylvia Ashton-Warner:

   No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

2. Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster:

   No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

3. Jean Baudrillard:

   To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

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