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Definitions: Deprivation |
DeprivationNoun1. A state of extreme poverty. 2. The disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation" or "losing him is no great deprivation". 3. Act of depriving. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deprivation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Deprivation \Dep`ri*va"tion\, noun. [from Late Latin expression deprivatio.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Loss or absence of parts, organs, powers, or things that are needed. (references) |
Medicine | The process of losing or the condition of having lost essentials vital to the body. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Extreme poverty of food, money or rights. Bare subsistence, degradation, famine, grinding poverty, homelessness,indigence, ostracization, sacrifice, total loss, want.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Deprivation."
Synonyms: DeprivationSynonyms: loss (n), privation (n), want (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Loss | Privation, bereavement; deprivation; (dispossession); riddance; damage, squandering, waste. |
Taking | Dispossession; deprivation, deprivement; bereavement; divestment; disherison; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Deprivation |
| English words defined with "deprivation": addict, alcohol addiction, alcoholism, Amission, Amotion ♦ bereaved, bereft ♦ Corruption of blood ♦ Degradement, deprived, Deprivement, disadvantaged, Disincorporation, Disworship, drunkenness, dry, dystopia ♦ Exanimation, Exauthoration ♦ famish ♦ grief-stricken, grieving ♦ mourning ♦ sorrowing, starve ♦ To take away. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "deprivation": Cultural Deprivation, custodial sentence ♦ disintoxication ♦ Food Deprivation ♦ Maternal Deprivation ♦ Paternal Deprivation, Poverty Areas, prison sentence, Psychosocial Deprivation ♦ Sensory Deprivation, Sleep Deprivation, survival rations ♦ Water Deprivation, withdrawal treatment. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "deprivation": Deaf-mute, Degradement ♦ Exauthoration ♦ ignominy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Deprivation" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (deprivation), German (deprivation). |
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Screenplays | It is despots and tryants who run our rivers red with the colors of a hundred trampled flags that unfurl in the winds of liberty, blowing over centuries of deprivation (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many studies make it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous. (references) | |
If sleep deprivation continues, hallucinations and mood swings may develop. (references) | ||
Sleep deprivation also triggers seizures in people with some types of epilepsy. (references) | ||
Business | Only judges may decide on the validity of any deprivation of liberty. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Italy | The Constitution forbids the deprivation of citizenship for political reasons. (references) |
Economic History | Burma | The World Bank concluded there is a silent emergency in Burma, and that deprivation on this scale will undoubtedly have long-term repercussions. (references) |
Bahamas | Article 27 of the Bahamian Constitution prohibits deprivation of property except upon the making of prompt and adequate compensation in the circumstances. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mauritius | There was one report of the arbitrary or unlawful deprivation of life by the Government or its agents, and numerous reports of deaths in police custody. (references) |
Tunisia | The forms of torture included electric shock; submersion of the head in water; beatings with hands, sticks, and police batons; cigarette burns, and food and sleep deprivation. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | Ministry of Interior officials are responsible for most incidents of abuse of prisoners, including beatings, whippings, sleep deprivation, and at least three cases of drugging of foreign prisoners. (references) | |
Political Economy | Cambodia | Economic deprivation and poor health characterize life for most citizens. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | The Commission's work was expected to continue into 2002. A landmark decision by the High Court of Justice in September 1999 prohibited the use of a variety of other abusive practices, including violent shaking, painful shackling in contorted positions, sleep deprivation for extended periods of time, and prolonged exposure to extreme temperatures; however, during the year, human rights organizations, including B'tselem, Human Rights Watch (HRW), and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), and the Mandela Institute for Political Prisoners reported that there was an increase in the number of allegations that security forces tortured detainees, including using methods prohibited in the High Court decision. (references) | |
Women | Nigeria | Widows are subjected to unfavorable conditions as a result of discriminatory traditional customs and economic deprivation. (references) |
Worker Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | There is no law specifically prohibiting trafficking in persons; however, other existing laws can be used to prosecute traffickers for crimes such as kidnaping, exploitation, rape, and deprivation of freedom. (references) |
Russia | Using fraud laws, Kareliya oblast authorities attempted to prosecute individuals who trafficked young women to the U.S. Oblast authorities were unable to establish that the Russia-based company knew that the women would be defrauded once they were in the U.S. The authorities consider that most of the illegal activity such as forced labor, sexual abuse, and deprivation of wages, takes place outside the country's borders and therefore is not within their jurisdiction. (references) | |
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| "Deprivation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.88% of the time. "Deprivation" is used about 862 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.88% | 861 | 8,214 |
| Noun (common) | 0.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 862 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "deprivation". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Pirathon | N/A | Biblical | His dissipation or deprivation |
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Expressions using "deprivation": Cultural Deprivation ♦ deprivation of freedom ♦ Food Deprivation ♦ Maternal Deprivation ♦ Paternal Deprivation ♦ Psychosocial Deprivation ♦ rural deprivation ♦ Sensory Deprivation ♦ Sleep Deprivation ♦ suffer deprivation ♦ Water Deprivation. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "deprivation": breast-deprivation, recipients-deprivation, sensory-deprivation, sleep-deprivation. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "deprivation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | humbje (blow, come down, damage, defeat, disappearance, draft, draught, flight, forfeiture, leak, leakage, losing, losings, loss, losses, Miss, passing, privation, wastage, waste), heqje (abolition, clearing, collection, deduction, Defeasance, deletion, derogation, dismissal, dismission, disposal, dispossession, ejection, elimination, evacuation, excision, extirpation, extraction, jump, omission, out, outage, privation, recall, relegation, removal, rending, resection, reserve, skip, stripping, subtraction, tripping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فقدان (absence, bereavement, destitution, forfeit, forfeiture, lack, loss, nonexistence, privation), نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), حرمان (confiscation, excommunication, privation), تجريد من الرتبة الكنيسية, الحرمان (bereavement, disinheritance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отнемане (withdrawal), нищета (beggary, degradation, destitution, distress, extremity, indigence, misery, necessity, poverty), лишаване от звание или служба, лишаване (abscission, divestiture, divestment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 剥夺 (Deprive, Deprived, Depriving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | deprivace, ztráta (damage, forfeit, loss, write off), strádání (affliction, destitution, hardship, privation), nouze (destitution, distress, indigence, necessities, need, needs, pinch, poverty, privation, scarcity, want), bída (beggary, destitution, misery, poverty, squalor, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | deprivation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | deprivatie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puute (defect, deficiency, deficit, failing, impairment, lack, shortage, shortcoming, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | privation (deficiency, deprival, derequisition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verlust (abatement, bereavement, deficit, disadvantage, exfiltration, forfeiture, leak, leakage, losing, loss, losses, miss, silence, wastage), Raub (abduction, booty, loot, plunder, predation, prey, raid, rape, robbery, snatch, spoils). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στέρηση (bereavement, drug withdrawal, forfeiture, hardship, lack, privation, withdrawal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מחסור (deficiency, insufficiency, lack, misery, need, paucity, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, want), שליל" (denial, fault, negation, prevention, privation, refusal), קפוח (denial, discrimination, injustice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megfosztás (despoliation, dispossession, divestiture, eviction, privation, stripping), hiány (absence, blank, dearth, defect, deficiency, deficit, failure, hiatus, lack, missing, missing link, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, upchuck, want, wastage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pencabutan (extraction, retraction, revocation), kehilangan (lose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | deprivazione, privazione (bereavement, deprival, divestiture, hardship, loss, privation, suffering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 剥奪 (divestiture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はく つ (coming off, divestiture, peeling off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 박탈 (Depriving, Divesting, Divestiture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | juailys (deprival, loss, total loss), juail (deprival, loss, total loss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eprivationday destruição (bale, break-up, consumption, defacement, demolition, destruction, doom, frustum, havoc, holograph, overthrow, rack, ravage, ruin, ruination, spoliation, undoing, wrack, wreck, wreckage, wrecking), deposição (deposition, dismount, dumping, tipping), revogação (abrogation, avoidance, cancellation, countermand, defeasance, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation, vacation, withdrawal), privação (bereavement, dividable, hardship, Miss, privation), privação, perda (bereavement, confusion, damage, exfiltration, forfeit, forgather, leak, leakage, leak-proof, loss, misbirth, miscarry, Miss, offscourings, perdition, prejudice, privation, ruination, seepage, undoing, wastage, waste, wreck). (various references) privaţiune (hardship, privation), pierdere (bad, damage, defeat, loss), lipsire. (various references) лишение (destitution, divestiture, hardship, privation), потеря (forfeiture, loss, spillage). (various references) siromaštvo (beggary, destitution, indigence, pauperism, poorness, poverty), lišavanje (divestiture, divestment). (various references) privación (abridgement, abridgment, confinement, confiscation, detraction, hardship, privation). (various references) förlust (detriment, disadvantage, dissipation, evaporation loss, forfeit, forfeiture, loss, waste). (various references) yoksunluk (deficiency, defraudation, lack, privation), mahrumiyet (destitution, privation), mahrum etme, ihtiyaç (call, demand, desideratum, exigence, exigency, necessity, need, pinch, privation, requirement, want). (various references) відібрання, втрата (atrophy, detriment, forfeiture, leakage, losing, loss, waste), позбавлення (bereavement, divestiture, divestment, forfeiture, release, riddance). (various references) sự mất sự lấy đi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | amissio, amissione, solacii, solacio, solacium, solitudine, solitudinem, solitudines, solitudinibus, solitudinis, solitudo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deprivation": deprivations. (additional references) | |
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"Deprivation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: departization, depraivation, deprelation, deprevation, deprication, depridation, deprivatiomn, depruvation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deprivation" (pronounced de'pruvā"shun) |
| 10 | d e' p r u v ā" sh u n | depravation. |
| 7 | -r u v ā" sh u n | aggravation, derivation. |
| 6 | -u v ā" sh u n | activation, elevation, excavation, innovation, motivation, renovation. |
| 5 | -v ā" sh u n | conservation, cultivation, inactivation, observation, ovation, preservation, privation, reservation, salvation, starvation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abomination, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, appellation, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, aspiration, assassination, assimilation, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, compilation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confabulation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, contemplation, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correlation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, depopulation, deportation, depreciation, depredation, deregulation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, dilation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, distillation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, ejaculation, elaboration, elation, electrification, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emulation, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhalation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, inoculation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, installation, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, manipulation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, overpopulation, overregulation, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, population, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, pressurization, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, prognostication, proliferation, pronunciation, propagation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, tabulation, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, titillation, toleration, transformation, transillumination, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abduction, abolition, abortion, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, commission, commotion, compassion, competition, completion, complexion, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, conception, conceptualization, concession, concoction, concussion, condescension, condition, conduction, confection, confession, conjunction, connection, conniption, conscription, constitution, constriction, construction, consumption, contention, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conviction, convolution, convulsion, correction, corruption, counterrevolution, crucifixion, cushion, deception, decimation, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, deduction, defection, definition, deletion, demolition, demotion, dentition, depiction, depletion, deposition, depression, dereliction, description, desertion, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, devolution, devotion, diction, dietitian, diffraction, digression, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, disconnection, discretion, discussion, disinfection, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissension, dissolution, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, dysfunction, edition, egyptian, ejection, election, electrician, electrocution, elocution, emission, emotion, emulsion, encryption, erection, erudition, eruption, eviction, evolution, exaction, exception, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exhibition, expansion, expedition, exposition, expression, expulsion, extension, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, faction, fashion, fiction, fission, flexion, formalization, fraction, freshen, friction, fruition, function, gentian, geriatrician, gumption, hessian, homogenization, hypertension, hypotension, ignition, impassion, imperfection, imposition, impression, inaction, inception, incineration, indiscretion, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, infraction, inhibition, injection, injunction, inquisition, inscription, insertion, inspection, institution, instruction, insurrection, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, interruption, intersection, introduction, introspection, intuition, invention, junction, jurisdiction, juxtaposition, lilliputian, liposuction, liquefaction, locomotion, logician, lotion, magician, malfunction, malnutrition, mansion, martian, mathematician, mention, midsection, misapprehension, misconception, misimpression, misperception, mission, mortician, motion, munition, musician, nonaggression, nonfiction, nonprescription, notion, nutrition, objection, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, ocean, omission, opposition, oppression, optician, option, overconsumption, overexpansion, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, oversimplification, partition, passion, patrician, pediatrician, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, permission, persecution, petition, physician, politician, pollution, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, preconception, precondition, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, preignition, premonition, prescription, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, procession, production, profession, progression, prohibition, projection, promotion, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, protection, ration, reaction, reassertion, reception, recession, recognition, recollection, recondition, reconstruction, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reflection, regression, reimposition, reinspection, reintegration, reintroduction, reinvention, rejection, remission, rendition, repercussion, repetition, reposition, repossession, repression, reproduction, requisition, resolution, restitution, restriction, resumption, resurrection, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, sanction, satisfaction, secession, secretion, section, sedition, seduction, selection, session, solution, statistician, submission, subscription, subsection, substation, substitution, subtraction, succession, suction, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, tactician, technician, tension, theoretician, titian, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transgression, transition, transmission, tuition, venetian, volition, workstation. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: derivation. | |
-2 letters: davenport, deviation, perdition, predation, privation, provident. | |
-3 letters: adoptive, antipode, arointed, atropine, daintier, deviator, dipteran, dipteron, donative, ideation, intrepid, iodinate, ordinate, overpaid, paintier, pointier, pronated, rationed, retinoid, vanitied. | |
-4 letters: adopter, aneroid, antired, aproned, atropin, avodire, avoider, denarii, depaint, detrain, deviant, diatron, dinitro, diopter, dioptre, diorite, diptera, diviner, edition, epinaoi, inditer, inedita, inertia, invader. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: deprivations, providential. | |
+3 letters: providentially. | |
+4 letters: overopinionated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 70 72 69 76 61 74 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .--. .-. .. ...- .- - .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110000 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e p r i v a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0070 0072 0069 0076 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3871828475886786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Derived from 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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