deprive
verb/dɪˈpɹaɪv/
Etymology From Middle English depryven, from Old French depriver, from Medieval Latin dēprīvō, from Latin dē- + prīvō.
1
Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
- "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
- If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 260a:
2
To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
3
To bereave.
- Synonyms
- bereave, impoverish
- Antonyms
- enrich
- Derived terms
- deprivable, deprival, deprivement, depriver, redeprive
- Related terms
- deprivation, private, privation, privy, deny