Usually means: Taking property away from someone.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word dispossessing:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispossessing: Merriam-Webster
  2. dispossessing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dispossessing: Vocabulary.com
  4. dispossessing: Wordnik
  5. dispossessing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dispossessing: Wiktionary
  7. Dispossessing, dispossessing: Dictionary.com
  8. dispossessing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Dispossessing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Dispossessing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. dispossessing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. dispossessing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. dispossessing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispossessing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. dispossessing: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dispossess)

verb:  To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them.
verb:  To deprive someone of possession in general.
verb:  (sports) To take possession of the ball/puck etc. (from someone).
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