To dispossess someone is to take property or land away from them — a house, a farm, a shop — so they no longer have it. It is a serious, rather formal word. Courts, governments, armies, and landlords are the kind of actors said to dispossess people; you would not use it for stealing a pencil. It belongs to history, law, and news: families dispossessed of their land, tenants dispossessed after a fight with the owner. The focus is on losing what you owned or lived on, not only on money. After you dispossess someone, they have been put out. Though actually, the word often hides who did the taking: news may say people were dispossessed, as if the land simply left them.

剝奪（土地或財產）