dispossessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪspəˈzəs/

動詞

dispossess (third-person singular simple present dispossesses, present participle dispossessing, simple past and past participle dispossessed)

1. To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them.
2. To deprive someone of possession in general.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act (please specify |act=II or III), scene vii:

     Though Mars himſelfe the angry God of armes,
     And all the earthly Potentates conſpire,
     To diſpoſſeſſe me of this Diadem:
     Yet wil I weare it in deſpight of them
     As great commander of this Eaſtearne world, […]

3. (sports) To take possession of the ball/puck etc. (from someone).
   • 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport‎:

     It was Bannan who released Agbonlahor for his goal with a long-range curling pass after Stephen Warnock had dispossessed Mohamed Diame.

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