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mispossessed

mispossessed is the simple past and past participle of mispossess.

Meaning of mispossess

Verb

mispossess (third-person singular simple present mispossesses, present participle mispossessing, simple past and past participle mispossessed)

  1. (transitive) To possess illicitly, as by theft.
    • Be he quite wary, as wood is ware of fire, as thigh of bramble or of thistle, he, who may be thinking to mislead these beeves or to mispossess this cattle.1864, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, page 385

Questions about mispossessed

What is mispossessed the simple past and past participle of?
Mispossessed is the simple past and past participle of mispossess.

Words near mispossessed in the dictionary

  1. mispositioned
  2. mispositioning
  3. mispositionings
  4. mispositions
  5. mispossess
  6. mispossessed
  7. mispossesses
  8. mispossessing
  9. mispost
  10. misposted
  11. misposting

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