deprive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
To bereave.

/dɪˈpɹaɪv/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-deprive.wav

deprive deprives depriving deprived depryve deprieve

From Middle English depryven, from Old French depriver, from Medieval Latin dēprīvō, from Latin dē- + prīvō.

bereave impoverish shear rob

enrich

deprivation private privation privy

deprivable deprival deprivement depriver redeprive

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