/?d?s.p??ze?.?n/thefactof havingproperty,especiallybuildingsorland, taken away from you, or theactof takingpropertyaway from apersonorgroup:剥夺，夺去（财产，尤指房屋或土地）He said that thecountrywasfoundedon the dispossession andslaughterof the land'sindigenousinhabitants.他说，这个国家是在抢夺和屠杀原住民的基础上建立起来的。Hermainthemeis the dispossessionofancientAboriginallandsbywhitesettlers.她探讨的主要主题是白人移民对古代原住民土地的剥夺。SeedispossessMore examples
Theexpansionofminingledto the dispossession,economicmarginalization, andattemptedassimilationofindigenouspeoples.
Steinbeck'schronicleof the Joad family's dispossessiontoreat the nation'sheartstrings.
Theinvasionof thiscountryand theresultingdispossession of theoriginalinhabitantshascausedrealhurtandpain.
Thetribehas aprofoundsenseof dispossession.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesTaking things away from someone or somewhere
appropriate
bear away
confiscate
confiscation
creamsomething/someoneoff
debug
drain
expropriation
extractive
get off
impound
infringe on/uponsomething
relieve
rootsomething/someoneout
routsomeoneout
seize
shelf
stripping
suck
sweep
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