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Deprive

Deprive Meaning & Definition
Deprive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Deprive?

[v] take away
[v] keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
[v] take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Deprive: divest | impoverish | strip

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | ablactate | bereave | bilk | clean | clean out | decline | disarm | disenfranchise | disestablish | disfranchise | disinherit | disown | dispossess | dock | expropriate | famish | impoverish | keep back | orphan | starve | take | tongue-tie | unarm | unclothe | unsex | wean | withhold | worsen

Deprive In Webster's Dictionary

\De*prive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deprived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Depriving}.] [LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver. See {Private}.] 1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.] 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. --Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath deprived her of wisdom. --Job xxxix. 17. It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. --Macaulay. 3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical. A miniser deprived for inconformity. --Bacon. Syn: To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.

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