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Noun dispossession has 2 senses

• dispossession(n = noun.act) eviction, legal ouster - the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law; Array
is a kind of due process, due process of law
has particulars: ouster, actual eviction, retaliatory eviction
Derived form verb dispossess₁

• dispossession(n = noun.cognition) exorcism - freeing from evil spirits; Array
is a kind of supernaturalism
has parts: evocation, summoning

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dispossession

bereavement, cost, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, deprivation, deprivement, despoilment, destruction, detriment, disendowment, disherison, disinheritance, dislodgment, disownment, disseisin, divestment, eviction, expense, expropriation, foreclosure, forfeit, forfeiture, injury, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, ouster, ousting, perdition, privation, reclaiming, repossessing, repossession, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, spoliation, stripping, taking away, total loss

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dispossession

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

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