DEPRIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deprive mean? 

• DEPRIVE (verb)
  The verb DEPRIVE has 3 senses:

1. take away possessions from someone

2. keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

3. take away

  Familiarity information: DEPRIVE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPRIVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they deprive    ... he / she / it deprives   
Past simple: deprived   
Past participle: deprived   
-ing form: depriving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take away possessions from someone

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

deprive; divest; strip

Context example:

The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets

Hypernyms (to "deprive" is one way to...):

take (take into one's possession)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deprive"):

disarm; unarm (take away the weapons from; render harmless)

expropriate (deprive of possessions)

clean (deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.)

dispossess (deprive of the possession of real estate)

clean out (deprive completely of money or goods)

unclothe (strip)

unsex (deprive of sex or sexual powers)

orphan (deprive of parents)

bereave (deprive through death)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody of something

Sentence example:

They deprive him of all his money

Derivation:

deprivation (act of depriving someone of food or money or rights)

deprivation (a state of extreme poverty)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "deprive" is one way to...):

keep back; withhold (hold back; refuse to hand over or share)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deprive"):

ablactate; wean (gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk)

disenfranchise; disfranchise (deprive of voting rights)

impoverish (make poor)

disinherit; disown (prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting)

bilk (evade payment to)

dock (deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty)

tongue-tie (deprive of speech)

starve (deprive of a necessity and cause suffering)

famish; starve (deprive of food)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something

Derivation:

deprivation (act of depriving someone of food or money or rights)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Take away

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

deprive; impoverish

Hypernyms (to "deprive" is one way to...):

decline; worsen (grow worse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deprive"):

disestablish (deprive (an established church) of its status)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody of something

Antonym:

enrich (make better or improve in quality)

Derivation:

deprivation (act of depriving someone of food or money or rights)

deprivation (a state of extreme poverty)

 Context examples 

“I will not deprive you of them. Miss Murdstone, be so good as to proceed!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Inhibition of IMPDH deprives cancer cells of GTP, resulting in disruption of DNA and RNA synthesis, inhibition of cell proliferation, and the induction of apoptosis.

(AVN944, NCI Thesaurus)

But when sleep-deprived, they consumed more and unhealthier snacks in between meals.

(Molecular ties between lack of sleep and weight gain, NIH)

By her next speech, Jo deprived herself of several years of pleasure, and received a timely lesson in the art of holding her tongue.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Her recent good offices by Anne had been enough in themselves, and their marriage, instead of depriving her of one friend, secured her two.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mason will not defy me; nor, knowing it, will he hurt me—but, unintentionally, he might in a moment, by one careless word, deprive me, if not of life, yet for ever of happiness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An ischemic stroke occurs when a clot cuts off blood flow to part of the brain, depriving those cells of oxygen and nutrients like the blood sugar glucose that they need to survive.

(Hibernating ground squirrels provide clues to new stroke treatments, National Institutes of Health)

In fact, men living in the most deprived areas were 51% more likely to experience depression than those living in areas that were not deprived.

(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)

The standard treatment for newborns whose brains were deprived of oxygen appears to work better than proposed alternatives, according to a new study.

(Longer cooling, lower temperature no improvement for infant oxygen deprivation, NIH)

This was repeated when they were exercising and when they were deprived of sleep.

(Poor Sleep, Lack of Exercise Increase Risk of Nut Allergy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)