dispossess

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

verb transitive

drive out: P. and V. ἐκβάλλειν, ἐξωθεῖν, ἐξελαύνειν.

deprive: P. and V. ἀφαιρέω, ἀφαιρεῖν (τινί τι), ἀφαιρεῖσθαι (τινά τι); see deprive.

drive from one's home: P. and V. ἐξοικίζειν.

dispossess (of office): P. ἀπαλλάσσειν (Thuc. 1, 129); see depose.

being now dispossessed, she will fret over her fate with inward brooding: ἀπολαχοῦσα νῦν αὐτὴ καθ' αὑτὴν τὴν τύχην οἴσει πικρῶς (Eur., Ion, 609).