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(dis-pos-sessed) 3 syllables

Definition

adjective. having lost possession of something valuable.

Example Sentence

Landlords have dispossessed many old tenement buildings.

More Example Sentences

They felt dispossessed after losing their land.

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Rhymes

  • best
  • beste
  • blessed
  • blest
  • breast
  • brest
  • c'est
  • chest
  • chrest
  • crest
  • dest
  • dressed
  • este
  • fessed
  • fest
  • gest
  • guessed
  • guest
  • jest
  • lest
  • messed
  • mest
  • nest
  • neste
  • pest
  • pressed
  • prest
  • quest
  • rest
  • stressed
  • test
  • trest
  • vest
  • west
  • wrest
  • yoest
  • zest

  • abreast
  • addressed
  • addwest
  • arrest
  • assessed
  • attest
  • behest
  • bequest
  • celeste
  • compressed
  • confessed
  • congest
  • contest
  • d'allest
  • depressed
  • detest
  • digest
  • digressed
  • distressed
  • divest
  • expressed
  • farwest
  • finessed
  • impressed
  • infest
  • ingest
  • invest
  • midwest
  • molest
  • natwest
  • northwest
  • norwest
  • obsessed
  • oppressed
  • penwest
  • possessed
  • professed
  • progressed
  • protest
  • recessed
  • repressed
  • request
  • retest
  • southwest
  • stateswest
  • suggest
  • suppressed
  • transgressed
  • undressed
  • unrest

  • acquiesced
  • coalesced
  • dispossessed
  • eastern-west
  • indigest
  • intrawest
  • rearrest
  • reassessed
  • reinvest
  • repossessed
  • self-professed
  • telequest
  • telewest
  • unaddressed
  • unimpressed
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