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dispossessed

/dis-puh-zest/US // ˌdɪs pəˈzɛst //

被剥夺的,失地,失地的,丧失财产

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : evicted, as from a dwelling, land, etc.; ousted.
    • : without property, status, etc., as wandering or displaced persons; rootless; disfranchised.
    • : having suffered the loss of expectations, prospects, relationships, etc.; disinherited; disaffiliated; alienated: The modern city dweller may feel spiritually dispossessed.

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Examples

  • Xabi Alonso, the Spanish midfielder who has had a tournament to forget (after only two games), was brusquely dispossessed.

  • Pope Francis, the first Pope from a developing nation, sees the world through the eyes of the poor and dispossessed.

  • But we live in times where revolutions and uprisings are rising from the disenchanted and the dispossessed.

  • The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.

  • Israel recently advanced legislation calling for tens of thousands of Bedouin citizens to be uprooted and dispossessed.

  • The advancing sand gradually crept into the hamlet, and in the course of a decade dispossessed the people by burying their houses.

  • But the Boers advanced, the natives were dispossessed of their lands, and missionaries were expelled from their regions.

  • Among them was Eucher with the handsome Yolande, dispossessed of her father's heritage by the seigneur of Plouernel.

  • In that struggle Thyrsis saw clearly that his place was in the ranks of the disinherited and dispossessed.

  • She was afterwards dispossessed, but the government remained in the hands of the descendants of her family.