Deprive

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English

Verb

Deprive (third-person singular simple present Deprives, present participle depriving, simple past and past participle deprived)

  1. To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.
    • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 260a.
      If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.

Synonyms for Deprive

impoverish, strip, bereave, despoil, take, rob, abridge, debar, divest, depose, dispossess, separate.

Antonyms for Deprive

enrich, give, add, confer, help, assist, present, restore, return, repay, replace, supply, endow.

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Thesaurus

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

Etymology

From Latin deprivare, from de- + privare

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /dəˈprɑɪv/ or /dɪˈprɑɪv/ (/dəˈprɑɪvz/, /dəˈprɑɪvɪŋ/, /dəˈprɑɪvd/ or /dɪˈprɑɪvz/, /dɪˈprɑɪvɪŋ/, /dɪˈprɑɪvd/)

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