bereave vs dispossess

bereave

verb
  • To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive. 

  • To destroy life; cut off. 

  • To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim. 

  • To deprive of power; prevent. 

dispossess

verb
  • To deprive someone of possession in general. 

  • To take possession of the ball/puck etc. (from someone). 

  • To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them. 

How often have the words bereave and dispossess occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )