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UK
/dɪpɹˈaɪv/
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[ US /dɪˈpɹaɪv/ ]
[ US /dɪˈpɹaɪv/ ]
VERB
- take away
-
take away possessions from someone
The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets - keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
How To Use deprive In A Sentence
- Nutritionally deprived children experience more health problems than food-secure children including anemia, weight loss, colds, and infections.
- It was not to deprive, to disenfranchise people.
- They also deprive Australian livestock of food by scouring the cultivated rangelands, which also facilitates erosion.
- It has become axiomatic in this country that children from deprived areas are destined to fail educationally.
- Dio Cassius can scarcely be mistaken when he says that Tyre and Sidon were "enslaved" -- i.e. deprived of freedom -- by Augustus, [14477] who must certainly have revoked the privilege originally granted by Pompey. History of Phoenicia
- This year is the centennial for a treaty under which Japan deprived Korea of its power to conduct foreign affairs, a prelude to Japan's annexation of the Korean Peninsula in 1910.
- I asked him if he felt emotionally or materially deprived because there were no more dinosaurs or brontosauruses -'And what did he say? YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
- In an act of petty vindictiveness she was deprived of the title of Her Royal Highness.
- In the oxygen-deprived nightmare that is Nordic skiing, it helps to be a freak of nature.
- If that is the case, my client was deprived of the chance of an acquittal on the murder count.