'Deprive' definitions:
Definition of 'deprive'
From: WordNet
verb
Take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets" [syn: deprive, strip, divest]
verb
Keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
verb
Take away [syn: deprive, impoverish] [ant: enrich]
Definition of 'Deprive'
From: GCIDE
- Deprive \De*prive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deprived; p. pr. & vb. n. Depriving.] [LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver. See Private.]
- 1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. [1913 Webster]
- God hath deprived her of wisdom. --Job xxxix. 17. [1913 Webster]
- It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical. [1913 Webster]
- A minister deprived for inconformity. --Bacon.
- Syn: To strip; despoil; rob; abridge. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deprive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abridge,
- bankrupt,
- bare,
- bereave,
- bleed,
- boot,
- bounce,
- break,
- bump,
- bust,
- can,
- cashier,
- curtail,
- cut off,
- defrock,
- degrade,
- demote,
- denudate,
- denude,
- deny,
- deplume,
- depose,
- deprive of,
- disbar,
- discharge,
- disemploy,
- disentitle,
- disinherit,
- dismantle,
- dismiss,
- displace,
- displume,
- dispossess,
- disrobe,
- divest,
- dock,
- drain,
- drum out,
- ease one of,
- expel,
- expropriate,
- fire,
- furlough,
- give the ax,
- give the gate,
- kick,
- kick upstairs,
- lay off,
- let go,
- let out,
- lighten one of,
- lose,
- make redundant,
- milk,
- mine,
- mulct,
- oust,
- outfit,
- pension off,
- read out of,
- refuse,
- release,
- remove,
- replace,
- retire,
- rob,
- sack,
- separate forcibly,
- strip,
- superannuate,
- surplus,
- suspend,
- take away,
- take away from,
- take from,
- tap,
- turn off,
- turn out,
- unfrock,
- withdraw,
- withhold