Deprive

Definitions: Deprive

Deprive

Verb

1. Take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets".

2. Keep from having, keeping, or obtaining.

3. Take away.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deprive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Deprive \De*prive"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Deprived; present participle verb or noun Depriving.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Deprive

Impotence

Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.

Killing

Verb: kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for.

Nonaddition Subtraction

Diminish; curtail; (shorten); deprive of; (take); weaken.

Taking

Take from, take away from; disseize; deduct; retrench; (curtail); dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.

Appropriate, expropriate, impropriate; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of.

Weakness

Render weak; Adjective: weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman; (render powerless); cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.

Crosswords: Deprive

Books

• Intent to Permanently Deprive (reference)

• People Rape: How the Haves Deprive the Have-Nots (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Secondly, When the prince hinders the legislative from assembling in its due time, or from acting freely, pursuant to those ends for which it was constituted, the legislative is altered: for it is not a certain number of men, no, nor their meeting, unless they have also freedom of debating, and leisure of perfecting, what is for the good of the society, wherein the legislative consists: when these are taken away or altered, so as to deprive the society of the due exercise of their power, the legislative is truly altered; for it is not names that constitute governments, but the use and exercise of those powers that were intended to accompany them; so that he, who takes away the freedom, or hinders the acting of the legislative in its due seasons, in effect takes away the legislative, and puts an end to the government. (Second Treatise of Government)

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (reference)

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation. (reference)

This segregation was alleged to deprive the plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment. (reference)

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The King hovered over them several days to deprive them of the sun and the rain.

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Health

Instead, they stack up and cause blockages that deprive the organs and tissue of oxygen-carrying blood. (references)

Strokes, heart attacks, and other conditions that deprive the brain of oxygen also can cause epilepsy in some cases. (references)

At the same time, there is concern that the curtailment of ECT use in response to public opinion and regulation may deprive certain patients of a potentially effective treatment. (references)

Business

British consumers should not be asked to call the United States to make a reservation, even if an international "800" number or attractive discount is provided, because to do so would deprive them of these important U.K. consumer protections. (references)

Children

Bulgaria

Lack of effective government infrastructure and programs and economic and social factors combine to deprive Romani youths of an education. (references)

Civil Liberties

Spain

The Court issued a preliminary decision in which it ruled that this form of detention does not deprive the detainee of his liberty. (references)

China

The Criminal Law states that government officials who deprive citizens of religious freedom may, in serious cases, be sentenced to up to 2 years in prison. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

The looming shadow economy continues to deprive the budget of needed funds and leadership the information it needs to make effective policy. (references)

Tanzania

Foreign exchange shortages and mismanagement continue to deprive factories of much-needed spare parts and have reduced factory capacity to less than 30%. (references)

Japan

The unnecessarily restrictive provisions of Japanese law and the rigid enforcement of these restrictions by the Federation of Japanese Bar Associations (Nichibenren) deprive foreign investors of the opportunity to receive the optimal combination of legal advice that a system more in conformity with modern standards of international legal practice would allow. (references)

Human Rights

Honduras

The law continues to require a vote of Congress to deprive an individual of his or her immunity, although such individual may be arrested if caught in the act of endangering the life or physical integrity of another. (references)

Burma

Unprofessional behavior by some court officials, the misuse of overly broad laws--including the Emergency Provisions Act, the Unlawful Associations Act, the Habitual Offenders Act, and the Law on Safeguarding the State from the Danger of Destructionists--and the manipulation of the courts for political ends continued to deprive citizens of the right to a fair trial and the rule of law. (references)

Minorities

Philippines

Muslims view Christian proselytizing as an extension of an historical effort by the Christian majority to deprive them of their homeland and cultural identity as well as their religion. (references)

Political Economy

Burma

The Government also continued to forcibly relocated large ethnic minority populations in order to deprive armed ethnic groups of civilian bases of support. (references)

Colombia

Throughout the country, paramilitary groups killed, tortured, and threatened civilians suspected of sympathizing with guerrillas in an orchestrated campaign to terrorize them into fleeing their homes, to deprive guerrillas of civilian support and allow paramilitary forces to challenge the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) for control of narcotics cultivations and strategically important territories. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "deprive": be deprive of smth. ♦ deprive of ♦ deprive of authority ♦ deprive of civil rights ♦ deprive of faith ♦ deprive of individuality ♦ deprive of one's individuality ♦ deprive of power ♦ deprive oneself ♦ deprive oneself of ♦ deprive oneself of smth. ♦ deprive smb. of smth.. Additional references.

Afrikaan

beroof (deprive ... of, rob), afsit (amputate, depose, deposit, dismiss, halt, put off, shut, shut off, stop, switch, switch off, take, take off, turn off). (various references)

Albanian

provoj (assay, attest, demonstrate, essay, establish, experience, fit on, make good, manifest, presume, pretend, prove, sample, savor, savour, show, substantiate, suffer, taste, test, try, try on, try out, validate, venture, witness), i marr me forcë, i heq (detract, disappoint, displume, dispossess, divest, reave, reive), grabit (amputate, depredate, despoil, flay, fleece, loot, rabble, ransack, Raven, ravish, reave, reive, rent, rip off, Rob, sack, subtract). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منع (averting, ban, banning, bar, barring, block, debar, deny, deter, estop, exclude, forbade, forbid, forbiddance, forbidding, foreclose, hinder, hindering, hold back, immunize, inhibit, interdict, interdiction, keep from, obstruct, obstruction, obviation, preclude, prevent, preventing, prevention, prohibit, prohibition, proscription, restrain from, stop, taboo, veto, ward off, withhold), ‏حرم (abridge, ban, be bereaved, be forbidden, bereave, contraband, debar, deny, disable, dispossess, divest, excommunicate, forbade, forbid, geld, interdict, inviolable, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, restrain, rob, sacred, sanctuary, starve, suppress, wife), ‏جرد (denude, dispossess, divest, empty, inventory, oust, riffle, shear, stocking, strip, sucker, unclothe). (various references)

Bulgarian 

освобождавам от длъжност, отнемам (denude, detract, divest, evict, overreach, revoke, take, take away). (various references)

Chinese 

剝奪 (expropriate, strip), 剥夺 (Deprivation, Deprived, Depriving). (various references)

Czech

zbavit (acquit, avoid, deliver, divest, release, relieve, rid). (various references)

Danish

berøve en traktat dens formål (to deprive a treaty of its object). (various references)

Dutch

ontnemen (deprive ... of), ontdoen (deprive ... of), laten uitstappen (dismiss), beroven (deprive ... of, rob), afzetten (amputate, amputation, arrest, cordoning off operation, cut off, depose, deposit, dismiss, fit out, fleece, garnish, isolate, put off, shut off, shutdown, shutting down, stop, switch off, take off, trim, turn off). (various references)

Esperanto

senposedigi (deprive ... of), senigi (deprive ... of), senhavigi (deprive ... of), elirigi (dismiss). (various references)

Farsi 

محروم کردن (Bereave, Devest, Disappoint, Dispossess, Divest, Evacuate, Exclude, Geld), معزول کردن (Depose, Eject, Recall), بی بهره کردن (Dispossess, Divest). (various references)

Finnish

viedä (bring, carry, convey, lead, require, take). (various references)

French

dépouiller (denude, deprive ... of). (various references)

German

berauben (bereave, bereaved, bereft, despoil, plunder, Rob, to deprive, to despoil). (various references)

Greek 

αποστερώ (bereave). (various references)

Hebrew 

למ� וע (avert, deny, forestall, head off, hinder, inhibit, keep back, preclude, prevent, refuse, stop, ward off, withhold), לשלול מן (divest), לשלול (bereave, contradict, deny, disapprove, negate, rebut, refuse, veto), לקפח (pervert, ruin, strike, take by force). (various references)

Hungarian

megfoszt (disbranch, divest, to bereave, to curtail, to depose, to despoil, to dispossess, to dispossess sy of sg, to divest, to incapacitate, to ungod), elvon (to abstract, to detract, to distract, to siphon off). (various references)

Indonesian

merampas (bereave, defraud, despoil, seize). (various references)

Italian

spogliare (bereave, deprive oneself, divest, fleece, Rob, shear, strip, unclothe, undress), privare (bereave, dispossess). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

取り上�'る (to confiscate, to deprive, to disqualify, to pick up, to take up), 取上�'る (to confiscate, to deprive, to disqualify, to pick up, to take up), 剥す (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), 剥がす (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), 剥ぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

へぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), はがす (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), はぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), とりあ�'る (to accept, to adopt, to confiscate, to deprive, to disqualify, to listen to, to pick up, to take up). (various references)

Korean 

박탈하십시�" (Divest). (various references)

Manx

roostey (bare, debunk, exposure, hull, peel, peeling, rifle, rind, rob, strip, strip of a girl, stripping, unbark), juailey, goaill ersooyl voish, cur ass (annoy, cancel, emit, extrude, inconvenience, put out). (various references)

Norwegian

berøve (dispossess). (various references)

Pig Latin

epriveday

Polish

pozbawić. (various references)

Portuguese

destituir (depose, dismiss, dispose of, drive away, oust, sack, unseat), despojar (bereave, denudate, denude, deplenish, despoil, divest, oust, strip, unclothe), revogar (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, determine, disaffirm, discharge from, quash, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke), privar (bereave, curtail, debar, denudate, strip), exonerar (clear, demit, discharge, disendow, dismiss, exonerate, loose, remove, sack). (various references)

Romanian

destitui dintr-o funcţie (eject from office), deposeda (dispossess, disseise, expropriate, spoil, widow of), lipsi pe cineva de ceva. (various references)

Russian 

лишать (abridge, bereave, debar from, denude, divest, mulct, reave, reive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oduzimati (subduct), oduzeti (deduct, detract, palsy, subduct, subtract, take away, take up, tarnish), lišiti (abridge, cut off, deny, deprave, divest, free, rid, rob, strip). (various references)

Spanish

privar (abridge, bereave, deny, detract, forbid, obtain, reave, reive, rob, shear). (various references)

Swedish

beröva (bereave, denude, deprive of, despoil, divest). (various references)

Turkish

yoksun bırakmak (bereave, debar, debar from, deny, dispossess, forgo, Rob, shear), rütbesini indirmek (degrade, demote, disrate), mahrum etmek (abridge, con smb. out of, debar, debar from, deny, detain, dispossess, divest, divest smb. of, lose, mulct, oust, shear, spoil, starve, stint), görevden almak (depose, discharge, dismiss, divest, remove, unseat). (various references)

Ukranian 

усувати з посади (demote), віднімати (abstract, deduct, denude, subduct, subtract, take away), відбирати (abstract, choose, defraud, denude, draft, draught, pick over), не допускати (debar, shut out), позбавляти (abridge, bare, denude, despoil, divest, oust, purge, reave, release). (various references)

Welsh

difuddio (bereave), difreinio (disfranchise), difeddiannu (dispossess), amddifadu (bereave). (various references)

de-, exuo, frustro, orbabor, orbata, orbatus, orbem, privabit, privari, privata, privati, privavit, privo, spolia, spoliabitis, spoliabitur, spoliabunt, spolians, spoliassent, spoliasset, spoliasti, spoliata, spoliati, spoliatus, spoliaverunt, spoliavit, spolient. (various references)

beniman, bidreosan, biniman, bistelan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "deprive": deprived, depriver, deprivers, deprives. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Deprive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: depive, Deportiva, deprize, deptive, derpive, derrive, diprivan. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: predive.

-1 letter: derive, perdie, reived.

-2 letters: diver, drive, eider, preed, pride, pried, redip, reive, riped, rived, viper.

-3 letters: deep, deer, dere, dire, dive, dree, drip, eide, ever, ired, peed, peer, peri, pied, pier, pree, rede, reed, ride, ripe, rive, veep, veer, vide, vied, vier.

-4 letters: dee, dev, die, dip, ere, eve, ire, ped, pee, per, pie.

+1 letter: deprived, depriver, deprives, prevised.

+2 letters: deprivers, overplied, perceived, perfervid, prevailed, previewed, replevied, reprieved.

+3 letters: depressive, dispersive, overpriced, overprized, overtipped, predictive, privileged, providence, pulverised, pulverized, redemptive, replevined, supervised.

+4 letters: apperceived, depravities, depressives, descriptive, livetrapped, overplaided, overpraised, overprinted, overslipped, preadaptive, predelivery, predicative, premedieval, previsioned, privateered, providences, unperceived, vituperated.

+5 letters: depreciative, depressively, dispersively, impoverished, improvidence, misperceived, overequipped, overpedaling, overpromised, overspending, oversupplied, postdelivery, preconceived, predictively, prediscovery, prerogatived, prevaricated, redeveloping, reprivatized, reproductive, unprivileged, unsupervised, videographer.

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