Deprive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To take something away from: The court ruling deprived us of any share in the inheritance.
  • v. To keep from possessing or enjoying; deny: They were deprived of a normal childhood by the war.
  • v. To remove from office.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
  • v. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
  • v. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To take away; end; injure or destroy.
  • To divest; strip; bereave: as, to deprive one of pain, of sight, of property, of children, etc.
  • To divest of office; degrade. See deprivation, 3.
  • To hinder from possessing or enjoying; debar; withhold.
  • Synonyms To dispossess, strip, rob, despoil.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. take away possessions from someone
  • v. keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
  • v. take away
  • Antonym
    invest    present    enrich   
    Verb Form
    deprived    deprives    depriving   
    Form
    depriver   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rob    abridge    despoil    strip    dispossess    bereave    divest    debar    depose    deforce   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Clive    Dr    Dr.    alive    arrive    clyve    connive    contrive    derive    dive   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts