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deprive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb deprive has 3 senses
- deprive(v = verb.possession) divest, strip - take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets" is one way to take
- deprive(v = verb.possession) Array - keep from having, keeping, or obtaining; Array is one way to keep back, withhold
- deprive(v = verb.change) impoverish - take away; Array is one way to decline, worsen
Derived forms noun deprivation3, noun deprivation1
Sample sentence:
They deprive him of all his money
Derived form noun deprivation3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Derived forms noun deprivation3, noun deprivation1
Antonym: enrich
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody of something
OXFORD DICTIONARY
deprive, v.tr.
1 (usu. foll. by of) strip, dispossess; debar from enjoying (illness deprived him of success).
2 (as deprived adj.) a (of a child etc.) suffering from the effects of a poor or loveless home. b (of an area) with inadequate housing, facilities, employment, etc.
3 archaic depose (esp. a clergyman) from office.
1 (usu. foll. by of) strip, dispossess; debar from enjoying (illness deprived him of success).
2 (as deprived adj.) a (of a child etc.) suffering from the effects of a poor or loveless home. b (of an area) with inadequate housing, facilities, employment, etc.
3 archaic depose (esp. a clergyman) from office.
Derivative
deprivable adj. deprival n.
Etymology
ME f. OF depriver f. med.L deprivare (as DE-, L privare deprive)
THESAURUS
deprive
abridge, bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, curtail, cut off, defrock, degrade, demote, denudate, denude, deny, deplume, depose, deprive of, disbar, discharge, disemploy, disentitle, disinherit, dismantle, dismiss, displace, displume, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, drain, drum out, ease one of, expel, expropriate, fire, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, lighten one of, lose, make redundant, milk, mine, mulct, oust, outfit, pension off, read out of, refuse, release, remove, replace, retire, rob, sack, separate forcibly, strip, superannuate, surplus, suspend, take away, take away from, take from, tap, turn off, turn out, unfrock, withdraw, withhold
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