The word 'dispossessed' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to be deprived of possessions, especially land or other property. It can also be used to describe a feeling of being socially or economically marginalized. Example: The war left many families dispossessed and homeless, with their houses and lands destroyed.
Boro had Konstantopoulos to thank for the save that denied Hugo Rodallega after Adam Clayton had been dispossessed by Danny Guthrie just outside the area.
Instead of the imaginative, integrated development plan drawn up by Charles Correa, the renowned Mumbai-based architect, the former mill-hub of Lalbaug-Parel is a soulless cram of skyscrapers, mall-to-mall carpeting and snarled traffic clashing with the tenements housing the dispossessed worker families.
In March, he was inhibited from indulging his worst instincts by the presence of the Lib Dems; now he has no Danny Alexander standing in the way of his plans to bash the poor and dispossessed even harder, in the absurd pursuit of a budget surplus for the sake of it.
Harvest, his latest novel, dramatises one of the great under-told narratives of English history: the forced enclosure of open fields and common land from the late medieval era on, whereby subsistence agriculture was replaced by profitable wool production and the peasant farmers dispossessed and displaced.
—Jennifer Myers I adore everything by Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood, among others, but for personal impact, I have to go with The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin.
"The political and educational challenge we now face is to find a way of constructively talking about culture, faith and immigration so that those who are most dispossessed can see the similarities of their precarious positions with those of marginalised ethnic or immigrant communities," Pilkington said.
With the League One champions trailing by 2-1 and looking for an equaliser, Simonsen was dispossessed by United's Nadir Ciftci after receiving a Richard Foster back-pass to allow the United striker to walk in an easy third with seven minutes remaining.
A trick, a jink, and they're gone: there is a risk, of course, that they will lose the ball – even Messi has been dispossessed in 35% of his dribbles in the Champions League this season – but Luis Enrique's version of Barça is prepared to take that risk: the advantage is that one quick burst can take a couple of opposing players out of the game and so puncture any defensive shield.
Bournemouth gave as good as they got before the break and deserved their lead on 25 minutes when Warren Feeney, a former team-mate of Ferdinand at Leeds United, dispossessed Michael Stewart and set up an easy chance for Hull City reject Adrian Cateres to slot home.
It saw him dispossessed by the United striker who was celebrating along with the travelling supporters even before tucking the ball into the empty net.
This is not quite accurate.The Norman invasion of Ireland was instigated at the invitation of Diarmaid Mac Murchada, King of Leinster, who was dispossessed of land by the High King of Ireland, Ruaidhri Ó Conchobair.
