dispossess

[US]/dɪspə'zes/
[UK]/'dɪspə'zɛs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

Verbo: privar de posesión o propiedad; desalojar, expulsar.
Word Forms
Gerundiodispossessing
Participio pasadodispossessed
Tercera persona singulardispossesses
Pasadodispossessed

Example Sentences

dispossess sb. from his home

desposeer a alguien de su hogar

They have been unjustly dispossessed of their hometown.

Han sido desposeídos injustamente de su ciudad natal.

they were dispossessed of lands and properties at the time of the Reformation.

Fueron desposeídos de tierras y propiedades en el momento de la Reforma.

he dispossessed Hendrie and set off on a solo run.

Desposeyó a Hendrie y salió a correr solo.

The nobles were dispossessed of their lands after the Revolution.

Los nobles fueron desposeídos de sus tierras después de la Revolución.

They have dispossessed her of her house.

La han desposeído de su casa.

They have dispossessed him of his political rights.

Le han desposeído de sus derechos políticos.

The tenant was dispossessed for not paying his rent.

El inquilino fue desposeído por no pagar su alquiler.

Real-world Examples

That they're dispossessed at our hand and have received nothing. – That's enough.

Que han sido despojados por nuestra mano y no han recibido nada. - Eso es suficiente.

Source: Deep Dive into the Movie World (LSOO)

He lent his entirely original canyon of a voice to the lonesome and the lost, the dispossessed and the disillusioned.

Él prestó su voz, un cañón original, a los solitarios y los perdidos, a los desposeídos y a los desilusionados.

Source: What it takes: Celebrity Interviews

They move only when actually dispossessed, taking off in a long leap that is almost a flight.

Solo se mueven cuando están realmente despojados, despegoándose en un largo salto que es casi un vuelo.

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

Fuentes, the Presidential Term Chair in African-American History at Rutgers University, is the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

Fuentes, la Cátedra Presidencial Term en Historia Afroamericana en la Universidad Rutgers, es autora de Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

Source: Time

Charity and Harney, dispossessed by newcomers, were at length obliged to give up their table and struggle through the throng about the boat-landings.

Charity y Harney, despojados por los recién llegados, se vieron finalmente obligados a abandonar su mesa y luchar entre la multitud cerca de los desembarcos de barcos.

Source: Summer

For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.

Porque te extenderás a la derecha y a la izquierda; tus descendientes desposesarán a las naciones y se establecerán en sus ciudades desoladas.

Source: 23 Isaiah Musical Bible Theater Edition - NIV

So to say that this has been the best government for the dispossessed and the marginalised people of Mexico, I think it's a myth.

Así que decir que este ha sido el mejor gobierno para los desposeídos y los marginados del pueblo de México, creo que es un mito.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

Less than two minutes later, Coman dispossessed Messi on the halfway line and launched a counterattack that ended in another brilliant Mbappe strike to level the game.

Menos de dos minutos después, Coman despojó a Messi en el medio campo y lanzó un contraataque que terminó con otro brillante gol de Mbappé para empatar el partido.

Source: 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar

It was the Grand-Duke Hermann III., reigning (although dispossessed) sovereign of the Grand-duchy of Zweibrucken-Veldenz and a confidant of Prince Bismarck, whose entire friendship he enjoyed.

Fue el Gran Duque Hermann III, gobernante (aunque desposeído) soberano del Gran Ducado de Zweibrucken-Veldenz y confidente del Príncipe Bismarck, cuya amistad gozó por completo.

Source: The Mystery of 813 (Part Two)

In the expectation of what reward are Polish mothers leaving their strollers on train stations so Ukrainian mothers fleeing, dispossessed and broken, will find some respite?

¿Con la expectativa de qué recompensa, las madres polacas están dejando sus cochecitos en las estaciones de tren para que las madres ucranianas que huyen, despojadas y destrozadas, encuentren un respiro?

Source: TED Talks (Audio Version) November 2022 Collection

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