Deprive
verb
To take something important or necessary away from someone.
Their property was forcibly deprived from them.
Often appears as...
- deprive of rights
- deprive of freedom
verb
To prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need or should have.
Children are being deprived of their childhood.
Often appears as...
- deprive of childhood
- deprive of education
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Disapproving
verb
To take away a right or privilege legally.
The court's decision deprived him of his voting rights.
Often appears as...
- deprive of voting rights
- deprive of citizenship
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
verb
To take something important or necessary away from someone.
Their property was forcibly deprived from them.
Often appears as...
- deprive of rights
- deprive of freedom
verb
To prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need or should have.
Children are being deprived of their childhood.
Often appears as...
- deprive of childhood
- deprive of education
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To take away a right or privilege legally.
The court's decision deprived him of his voting rights.
Often appears as...
- deprive of voting rights
- deprive of citizenship
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Severe Impact
Using 'deprive' suggests a serious and negative effect on a person's life or situation.
The war has deprived many of food and shelter.
Pro Tip 2/3Forceful Taking
'Deprive' often implies something was taken against the will of the owner or rightful holder.
The settlers deprived the indigenous people of their lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreplaceable Loss
Things one is deprived of are typically essential and not easily replaced or regained.
He was deprived of his chance to compete in the Olympics.
Pro Tip 1/3Severe Impact
Using 'deprive' suggests a serious and negative effect on a person's life or situation.
The war has deprived many of food and shelter.
Pro Tip 2/3Forceful Taking
'Deprive' often implies something was taken against the will of the owner or rightful holder.
The settlers deprived the indigenous people of their lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreplaceable Loss
Things one is deprived of are typically essential and not easily replaced or regained.
He was deprived of his chance to compete in the Olympics.
Pro Tip 1/3Severe Impact
Using 'deprive' suggests a serious and negative effect on a person's life or situation.
The war has deprived many of food and shelter.
Pro Tip 2/3Forceful Taking
'Deprive' often implies something was taken against the will of the owner or rightful holder.
The settlers deprived the indigenous people of their lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreplaceable Loss
Things one is deprived of are typically essential and not easily replaced or regained.
He was deprived of his chance to compete in the Olympics.
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Gordon Brown on global...
perhaps at the expense of other nations. When you actually look at the motor of the world economy, it cannot move forward unless there is trade between the different countries. And any nation that would become protectionist over the next few years would deprive itself of the chance of getting the benefits
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What's the connection...
of Alzheimer's disease in late life. Those are, of course, simply associational studies. They don't prove causality. But more recently, we actually have identified that causal evidence. In fact, if you take a healthy human being and you deprive them of sleep for just one night,
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E.O. Wilson: Advice to...
because they were afraid of failure. These math-phobes deprive science and medicine of immeasurable amounts of badly needed talent. Here's how to relax your anxieties, if you have Understand that mathematics is a language ruled like other verbal languages,
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How to Raise Successful...
And so with our overhelp, our overprotection and overdirection and hand-holding, we deprive our kids of the chance to build self-efficacy, which is a really fundamental tenet of the human psyche, far more important than that self-esteem they get
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Advice to young...
turned away from the possibility of a scientific career or even from taking non-required courses in science because they were afraid of failure these math folks deprive science and medicine of immeasurable amounts of badly needed talent
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What happens during a...
Every two seconds, someone somewhere in the world experiences a stroke. And one out of every six people will have one at some point in their lives. Strokes deprive brain cells of oxygen and are one of the most common causes of death
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Antonio Donato Nobre:...
We deprive nature of its technology. A robotic hand is technological, mine is biological, and we don't think about it anymore. Let's then look at the morpho butterfly, an example of an invisible technological competence of life,
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Dan Buettner: How to...
the genetic lottery. The second myth is, there are treatments that can help slow, reverse, or even stop aging. False. When you think of it, there is 99 things that can age us. Deprive your brain of oxygen for just a few minutes,
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Entering a Salmon...
dead fish but this bounty was only available for a short window of time each year look there's even skin everywhere on the bottom missing the run could deprive an entire community of their main food
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Do personality tests...
So by using personality tests this way, institutions can deprive people of opportunities they’d excel at, or discourage them from considering certain paths.
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Gordon Brown on global...
perhaps at the expense of other nations. When you actually look at the motor of the world economy, it cannot move forward unless there is trade between the different countries. And any nation that would become protectionist over the next few years would deprive itself of the chance of getting the benefits
Video examples
What's the connection...
of Alzheimer's disease in late life. Those are, of course, simply associational studies. They don't prove causality. But more recently, we actually have identified that causal evidence. In fact, if you take a healthy human being and you deprive them of sleep for just one night,
Video examples
E.O. Wilson: Advice to...
because they were afraid of failure. These math-phobes deprive science and medicine of immeasurable amounts of badly needed talent. Here's how to relax your anxieties, if you have Understand that mathematics is a language ruled like other verbal languages,
Video examples
How to Raise Successful...
And so with our overhelp, our overprotection and overdirection and hand-holding, we deprive our kids of the chance to build self-efficacy, which is a really fundamental tenet of the human psyche, far more important than that self-esteem they get
Video examples
Advice to young...
turned away from the possibility of a scientific career or even from taking non-required courses in science because they were afraid of failure these math folks deprive science and medicine of immeasurable amounts of badly needed talent
Video examples
What happens during a...
Every two seconds, someone somewhere in the world experiences a stroke. And one out of every six people will have one at some point in their lives. Strokes deprive brain cells of oxygen and are one of the most common causes of death
Video examples
Antonio Donato Nobre:...
We deprive nature of its technology. A robotic hand is technological, mine is biological, and we don't think about it anymore. Let's then look at the morpho butterfly, an example of an invisible technological competence of life,
Video examples
Dan Buettner: How to...
the genetic lottery. The second myth is, there are treatments that can help slow, reverse, or even stop aging. False. When you think of it, there is 99 things that can age us. Deprive your brain of oxygen for just a few minutes,
Video examples
Entering a Salmon...
dead fish but this bounty was only available for a short window of time each year look there's even skin everywhere on the bottom missing the run could deprive an entire community of their main food
Video examples
Do personality tests...
So by using personality tests this way, institutions can deprive people of opportunities they’d excel at, or discourage them from considering certain paths.
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Jessica Lowndes
Canadian Actress
I live a healthy lifestyle and I crave healthy food. I love porridge - I have bizarre cravings for it. I love it with brown sugar and bananas, and I'm a huge fan of cinnamon - I put cinnamon on everything. I also have a sweet tooth and I don't like to deprive myself. I think everything in moderation is the key.
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Jackie Mason
American Comedian
The truth is I'm not at all surprised of the longevity of my career. In fact, I would be surprised if the opposite were true and if my career did not have this longevity because I can't believe people would purposely deprive themselves of such hilarious, meaningful entertainment at these prices.
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Richard Mentor Johnson
American Politician
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
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Mahathir Mohamad
Malaysian Politician
We believe that human rights always applies to the majority, who should have its rights protected. When people demonstrate and go to the streets, they deprive the majority from earning a living.
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Philippe Petit
French Celebrity
Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.
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Nina Dobrev
Canadian Actress
My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.
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Rituparna Sengupta
Indian Actress
If you want to eat something, go ahead, but make sure that you balance it out. Don't deprive yourself, after all you get only one life.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
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Josiah Royce
American Philosopher
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
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Mary Lou Retton
American Athlete
Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
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Jessica Lowndes
Canadian Actress
I live a healthy lifestyle and I crave healthy food. I love porridge - I have bizarre cravings for it. I love it with brown sugar and bananas, and I'm a huge fan of cinnamon - I put cinnamon on everything. I also have a sweet tooth and I don't like to deprive myself. I think everything in moderation is the key.
Quote examples
Jackie Mason
American Comedian
The truth is I'm not at all surprised of the longevity of my career. In fact, I would be surprised if the opposite were true and if my career did not have this longevity because I can't believe people would purposely deprive themselves of such hilarious, meaningful entertainment at these prices.
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Richard Mentor Johnson
American Politician
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Quote examples
Mahathir Mohamad
Malaysian Politician
We believe that human rights always applies to the majority, who should have its rights protected. When people demonstrate and go to the streets, they deprive the majority from earning a living.
Quote examples
Philippe Petit
French Celebrity
Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.
Quote examples
Nina Dobrev
Canadian Actress
My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.
Quote examples
Rituparna Sengupta
Indian Actress
If you want to eat something, go ahead, but make sure that you balance it out. Don't deprive yourself, after all you get only one life.
Quote examples
Gore Vidal
American Novelist
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
Quote examples
Josiah Royce
American Philosopher
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
Quote examples
Mary Lou Retton
American Athlete
Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
Example 1 of 10
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