Synonyms:
dispossessed, homeless, roofless
Meaning: physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern
Usage examples
Isaac Comnenus and his friends took arms, and dispossessed the aged Michael of his throne with little difficulty.
Mr. Bate put a large male Carcinus maenas into a pan of water, inhabited by a female which was paired with a smaller male; but the latter was soon dispossessed.
Her return could have no other meaning than that there was a strong tie between them, and he was now to stay on the ground until I should be dispossessed and her rights established.
King Albert of Belgium, dispossessed to-day of his all and banished to a hamlet--what tribute of admiration and homage can we offer him worthy of his acceptance and sufficiently enduring?
They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them.