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    deprive
    /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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  3. DEPRIVE definition: 1. to prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need: 2. to prevent…. Learn more.

  4. 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…

  5. DEPRIVE meaning: 1. to prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need: 2. to prevent…. Learn more.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Deprive means to take or keep something away from someone or something. It can also mean to remove from office. See synonyms, antonyms, translations and usage examples of deprive.

  9. 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.