Usually means: Deny someone of something needed.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word Deprive:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. deprive: Merriam-Webster
  2. deprive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deprive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deprive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deprive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deprive, deprive: Wordnik
  7. deprive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deprive: Wiktionary
  9. deprive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deprive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deprive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deprive: Dictionary.com
  13. deprive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deprive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deprive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Deprive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. deprive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. deprive: Rhymezone
  19. deprive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. deprive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. deprive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. deprive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. deprive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. deprive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. deprive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. deprive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deprive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deprive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. deprive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deprive: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deprive)

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

Similar:
divest, dispossess, impoverish, strip, deny, bereave, deny of, redeprive, take away, forestall, more...

Opposite:
provide, supply, furnish, give

Types:
deprivation, deprived, depriving, deprivingly, more...

Phrases:
deprive of, deprive of courage, deprive of strength, receive deprive, deprive of freedom, more...

Adjectives:
great, own, wise, compact, fat

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Similar:
divest, dispossess, impoverish, strip, deny, bereave, deny of, redeprive, take away, forestall, more...

Opposite:
provide, supply, furnish, give

Types:
deprivation, deprived, depriving, deprivingly, more...

Phrases:
deprive of, deprive of courage, deprive of strength, receive deprive, deprive of freedom, to deprive someone of something, deprive of weapons, deprive of official status, to deprive of a legal right, more...

Adjectives:
great, own, wise, compact, fat

Colors:
    black,     gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     sepia, more...



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