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Meanings of dispossessed in English

Physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.

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Examples for "homeless"
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Better protection for homeless people is good news up to a point.
The Guardian
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But thousands are still homeless after the war and thousands more unemployed.
Reuters
3
Hundreds of thousands of people across the region remain marooned or homeless.
Reuters
4
Thousands are homeless and still waiting for desperately needed help to arrive.
Radio NZ
5
City officials then put homeless families in common areas of recreation centers.
Reuters
1
Many of the houses left roofless The two-storey houses have several rooms.
The South African
2
Rents in the roofless walls of unoccupied houses stared at the passer-by.
My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th...
3
Fate guided him to the very doorway of the great roofless chamber.
The Return of Tarzan
4
He lifted his clenched hand toward the sky overshadowing the roofless walls.
And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy
5
Really it was nothing more than a roofless annex of the Palace.
The system of the world
Usage of dispossessed in English
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The government sometimes pays more heed to this group than dispossessed farmers.
The Guardian
2
By this act through the operation of the law they dispossessed themselves.
Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. / A Collection of Speeches a...
3
They systematically dispossessed less privileged men of their genetic share of posterity.
The Red Queen
4
She focuses on the dispossessed, the slightly off-beat, those desperately seeking attention.
The Irish Times
5
Strikes and demonstrations by dispossessed miners and underpaid railways workers have waned.
Financial Crime and Corruption
6
After this guy had dispossessed a few families, Biddy Early confronted him.
Drawing Down the Moon
7
Now the pygmies are the lowest of Uganda's low, despised and dispossessed.
Night of knives
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We are all alike in kind-eventhe most degraded, despised, or dispossessed.
Silent screams
9
I shook my head, set the book aside, dispossessed Archie, stood up.
The burglar who liked to quote kipling
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Where do they come in, these dispossessed dark sons of the Father?
The Purple Heights
11
The poor, oppressed and otherwise dispossessed would be without an acoustic champion.
Wired
12
Whether every single dispossessed South African will have access to land is doubtful.
The South African
13
Jilted lovers, grieving families, dispossessed monsoon victims, quadruple amputees-tragiccases, all.
The football fan's manifesto
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Some saw themselves as victims of oppression, others as sons of dispossessed families.
The Guardian
15
Germany trailed after 21 minutes when Patrick Mulvihill dispossessed Oliver Madjeski.
The Irish Times
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He should succor the dispossessed, and never withhold his favor from the destitute.
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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