Definitions for deprive
dɪˈpraɪvde·prive

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. deprive, strip, divestverb

   take away possessions from someone

   "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

2. depriveverb

   keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

3. deprive, impoverishverb

   take away

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. depriveverb

   To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.

2. Etymology: From deprivare, from de- + privare

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. To DEPRIVEverb

   Etymology: from de and privo, Latin.

   1. To bereave one of a thing; to take it away from him.

   God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. Job xxxix. 17.

   He lamented the loss of an excellent servant, and the horrid manner in which he had been deprived of him. Edward Hyde.

   Now wretched Oedipus, depriv’d of sight,
   Led a long death in everlasting night. Alexander Pope, Statius.

   2. To hinder; to debar from.

   From his face I shall be hid, depriv’d
   His blessed count’nance. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. xi.

   The ghosts rejected, are th’ unhappy crew
   Depriv’d of sepulchres, and fun’ral due. John Dryden, Æn. vi.

   3. To release; to free from.

   Most happy he,
   Whose least delight sufficeth to deprive
   Remembrance of all pains which him opprest. Edmund Spenser.

   4. To put out of an office.

   A minister, deprived for inconformity, said, that if they deprived him it should cost an hundred mens lives. Francis Bacon.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Depriveverb

   to take away; to put an end; to destroy

2. Depriveverb

   to dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of

3. Depriveverb

   to divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Deprive

   de-prīv′, v.t. to take away from one his own: in take from: to dispossess: to degrade (a clergyman) from office: to bereave.—n. Deprivā′tion, act of depriving: state of being deprived: degradation from office: loss: bereavement: suffering from hardship.—adj. Depriv′ative.—n. Deprive′ment. [Low L. deprivāre, to degrade—L. de, from, and privāre, to deprive—privus, one's own.]

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1. • Withhold
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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'deprive' in Verbs Frequency: #925

Anagrams for deprive »

1. previde

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of deprive in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of deprive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of deprive in a Sentence

1. Jesselyn Radack:

   These cases are part of a coordinated campaign to deprive the public of information about our government, and they lay the groundwork to go after more mainstream media sources, outlets and publishers.

2. Christian Yates:

   If we can somehow increase the external noise that these locusts are experiencing then we might be able to break up the swarm, isolate the individuals, and deprive them of the benefits of being in a swarm.

3. Andreas Geisel:

   We will not accept that some violence-seeking individuals want to deprive us of May Day as a day of peaceful demonstration, we do not give way to violence.

4. Aristotle:

   Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

5. Jimmy Carter:

   Anybody that has a daughter or granddaughter knows how precious that person can be, ... And anybody who is interested in the future of (their) country or city that if they deprive half of their own citizens of an equal right to an education or an honest job, then their whole community is going to suffer.

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