What does deprive mean?
Definitions for deprive
dɪˈpraɪvde·prive
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word deprive.
Princeton's WordNet
deprive, strip, divestverb
take away possessions from someone
"The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
depriveverb
keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
deprive, impoverishverb
take away
Wiktionary
depriveverb
To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.
Etymology: From deprivare, from de- + privare
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To DEPRIVEverb
Etymology: from de and privo, Latin.
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.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.Most happy he,
Whose least delight sufficeth to deprive
Remembrance of all pains which him opprest. Edmund Spenser.A minister, deprived for inconformity, said, that if they deprived him it should cost an hundred mens lives. Francis Bacon.
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deprive
Deprive refers to the act of taking something away from someone or preventing someone from having or using something. It implies a denial or withholding of a necessary or desired benefit, right, possession, or condition.
Webster Dictionary
Depriveverb
to take away; to put an end; to destroy
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
Depriveverb
to divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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.]
British National Corpus
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'deprive' in Verbs Frequency: #925
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Anagrams for deprive »
previde
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of deprive in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of deprive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of deprive in a Sentence
I see that the house lights are still on. Let us not deprive the neighbours any longer of the chance to deplore how drunk I am."
Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
Law School professor Richard Briffault:
The executive order itself does not do anything that carries legal consequences, the( executive order) is actually pretty toothless in that all of the sections of law he invokes do not deprive the Department of Health of its power as the ultimate decision maker regarding measures necessary to inhibit the spread of communicable diseases as outlined in Section 1003.22( 3) of Florida Statutes.
What Bridgegate did was deprive me of the benefit of the doubt – that’s all. That’s a big thing. But that’s what it did.
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
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- حرمArabic
- лишавам, отнемамBulgarian
- verweigern, wegnehmen, aberkennen, beraubenGerman
- desproveer, privarSpanish
- kiistää, poistaa, riistääFinnish
- dénuer, priverFrench
- megfosztHungarian
- mencabutIndonesian
- privareItalian
- 奪う, 取り上げるJapanese
- بێ بهشکردنKurdish
- viduōLatin
- ontnemenDutch
- pozbawiać, pozbawićPolish
- privarPortuguese
- privaRomanian
- лишить, лишать, отнять, отниматьRussian
- beröva, förvägraSwedish
- กีดกันThai
- mahrum etmekTurkish
- позбавитиUkrainian
- محرومUrdu
- tước đoạtVietnamese
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