verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of dispossess.
adjective.homeless
adjective.impoverished
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adjective.
physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
Word Usage
"If you were poor, whether at home or in some Third World country, you were one of the 'dispossessed'-even if you had never possessed anything to dispossess you of."