Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dispossess

Dispossess (?; see Possess) , transitive verb

[Prefix dis- + possess: compare French déposséder.]

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