Deprive
[dɪ'praɪv]
Definition
(verb.) take away.
(verb.) keep from having, keeping, or obtaining.
(verb.) take away possessions from someone; 'The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets'.
Inputed by Alphonso--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
(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.
(v. t.) To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
Checked by Leon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Dispossess, divest, strip, rob, BEREAVE, take from.
Typed by Lisa
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Strip, bereave, despoil, rob, divest, dispossess, abridge, depose, prevent,hinder
ANT:Invest, endow, compensate, enrich, supply, present, reinstate, indemnify
Checked by Blanchard
Definition
v.t. to take away from one his own: in take from: to dispossess: to degrade (a clergyman) from office: to bereave.—n. Deprivā′tion act of depriving: state of being deprived: degradation from office: loss: bereavement: suffering from hardship.—adj. Depriv′ative.—n. Deprive′ment.
Typist: Melville
Examples
- You can't deprive me of the lead. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- According to that doctrine, motives deprive us not of free-will, nor take away our power of performing or forbearing any action. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Thank'ee, you're wery good, but I won't deprive you of it,' replied Sam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He filed an application for a patent and entered into a conspiracy to 'swear back' of the date of my invention, so as to deprive me of it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The most cruel of all denials is to deprive a human being of joyous activity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Papin’s boat was said to have been used on the Fulda at Cassel, and was reported to have been destroyed by bargemen, who feared that it would deprive them of a livelihood. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- With almost every other man in the world, it would be an alarming prospect; but Edward's affection and constancy nothing can deprive me of I know. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Has he not, I said, an occupation; and what profit would there be in his life if he were deprived of his occupation? Plato. The Republic.
- Terror had deprived him of all presence of mind; he threw himself along the floor, and nothing could persuade him to rise. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Simply, the discovery of Oliver's parentage, and regaining for him the inheritance of which, if this story be true, he has been fraudulently deprived. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- You have deprived the best years of his life of that independence which was no less his due than his desert. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Archeologists have deprived the Greeks of this gift, and carried back its origin to remoter ages and localities. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Why, I said, do you not see that men are unwillingly deprived of good, and willingly of evil? Plato. The Republic.
- To be depriving themselves of the advantage of other eyes and other judgments, might be an evil even beyond the loss of present pleasure. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- We are perfectly secure in the enjoyment of the firSt. The second may be ravished from us, but can be of no advantage to him who deprives us of them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Editor: Shelton