DISPOSSESSION Synonyms

• action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved

• the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law

• the feeling of being alienated from other people

• separation resulting from hostility

• (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another

• the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly

• a state of extreme poverty

• the disadvantage that results from losing something

• act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

• act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

• an event in which something is displaced without rotation

• the act of uniform movement

• (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

• to move something from its natural environment

• act of removing from office or employment

• something that is lost

• gradual decline in amount or activity

• the act of losing someone or something

• the disadvantage that results from losing something

• the experience of losing a loved one

• the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

• military personnel lost by death or capture

• euphemistic expressions for death

• The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.

• freeing from evil spirits

• the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law