take away, prevent from having, deny
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Deprive Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Deprive Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
(v. t.)
To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
(v. t.)
To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutTo dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
deprive
\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.
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. x. 17. it was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself.
3. to divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical. a minister deprived for inconformity.
Verb
1. take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
(synonym) strip, divest
(hypernym) take
(hyponym) disarm, unarm
(derivation) privation, want, deprivation
2. keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
(hypernym) withhold, keep back
(hyponym) wean, ablactate
(derivation) privation, deprivation
3. take away
(synonym) impoverish
(antonym) enrich
(hypernym) worsen, decline
(hyponym) disestablish
(derivation) privation, want, deprivation
Deprive Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
To deprive a person is an intransitive verb, which can mean:
In the Law
- Child neglect
- To deprive some person of life, liberty, or property
- To deprive someone of a peerage, see Titles Deprivation Act 1917
- To be deprived of property, see Provident Institution for Sav. v. Mayor of Jersey City
- To deprive someone of his goods, see Theft, Larceny, or Deception offences
- To remove a case from the jurisdiction of a court.
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