dispossessed

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dispossessed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  dispossessed \dispossessed\ adj.
     physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.
  
     Syn: homeless, roofless.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
                made a living out of shepherding dispossessed
                people from one country to another  --James Stern

  Dispossess \Dis`pos*sess"\ (?; see Possess), v. t. [imp. & p.
     p. Dispossessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dispossessing.] [Pref.
     dis- + possess: cf. F. d['e]poss['e]der.]
     To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy
     of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to
     eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away;
     as, to dispossess a king of his crown.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. --Goldsmith.
     [1913 Webster]

dispossessed - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dispossessed
      adj 1: physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of
             security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed
             people from one country to another"- James Stern [syn:
             dispossessed, homeless, roofless]