Meaning of DEPRIVE
| Pronunciation: | | di'prIv
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- [v] take away
- [v] keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
- [v] take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
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| | Synonyms: | | divest, impoverish, strip |
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| | See Also: | | ablactate, bereave, bilk, clean, clean out, decline, disarm, disenfranchise, disestablish, disfranchise, disinherit, disown, dispossess, dock, expropriate, famish, impoverish, keep back, orphan, starve, take, tongue-tie, unarm, unclothe, unsex, wean, withhold, worsen | |
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| | Definition: | | \De*prive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deprived}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Depriving}.] [LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest
of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF.
depriver. See {Private}.]
1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.]
'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. --Shak.
2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from
possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter
object, usually preceded by of.
God hath deprived her of wisdom. --Job xxxix.
17.
It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over
himself. --Macaulay.
3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity,
especially ecclesiastical.
A miniser deprived for inconformity. --Bacon.
Syn: To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.
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| | Related Terms: | | abridge, bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, curtail, cut off, defrock, degrade, demote, denudate, denude, deny, deplume, depose, deprive of, disbar, discharge, disemploy, disentitle, disinherit, dismantle, dismiss, displace, displume, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, drain, drum out, ease one of, expel, expropriate, fire, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, lighten one of, lose, make redundant, milk, mine, mulct, oust, outfit, pension off, read out of, refuse, release, remove, replace, retire, rob, sack, separate forcibly, strip, superannuate, surplus, suspend, take away, take away from, take from, tap, turn off, turn out, unfrock, withdraw, withhold |
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