Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

         Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. --Goldsmith.

Source : WordNet®

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