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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 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.
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…
DEPRIVE meaning: 1. to prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need: 2. to prevent…. Learn more.
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 definition: to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons). See examples of DEPRIVE used in a sentence.
deprive. Definition of deprive verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
To take something away from forcibly; dispossess. To deprive someone of his property. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To keep from having, using, or enjoying. To be deprived of one's rights. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To remove from office, esp. ecclesiastical office. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms:
Origin of deprive 1 C14: from Old French depriver, from Medieval Latin dēprīvāre, from Latin de- + prīvāre to deprive of, rob; see private Discover More
