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- Dictionarydeprive/dɪˈprʌɪv/
verb
- 1. prevent (a person or place) from having or using something: "the city was deprived of its water supplies"
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DEPRIVE definition: 1. to prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need: 2. to prevent…. Learn more.
DEPRIVE meaning: 1. to prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need: 2. to prevent…. Learn more.
adjective. uk / dɪˈpraɪvd / us / dɪˈpraɪvd / Add to word list. C1. not having the things that are necessary for a pleasant life, such as enough money, food, or good living conditions: She had a deprived childhood /comes from a deprived background. a deprived area. Synonym. disadvantaged. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples.
If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it. The disintegration of the Soviet Union deprived western intelligence agencies of their main enemies.
The meaning of DEPRIVE is to take something away from. How to use deprive in a sentence. to take something away from; to withhold something from; to remove from office…
Definition of deprive verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Deprive means to keep from having. If your little brother gets loud and hyper every time he eats sweets, your parents might deprive him of sugary cereal and candy. Deprive can also mean to take away something that someone already had, or feels they deserve to have, like basic human rights.
Deprive definition: to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons). See examples of DEPRIVE used in a sentence.
1. To take something away from: The court ruling deprived us of any share in the inheritance. 2. To keep from possessing or enjoying; deny: They were deprived of a normal childhood by the war. 3. To remove from office.
deprive. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English de‧prive /dɪˈpraɪv/ verb → deprive somebody of something → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus deprive • That is because 10 defections would deprive Gingrich of a majority. • You have the intention permanently to deprive me of the petrol.
