deprive
/dɪˈpɹaɪv/ verb B1- 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.
He/she/it deprives · Past deprived · Past participle deprived · -ing form depriving
Verb forms
- Base form
- deprive
- He/she/it
- deprives
- Past
- deprived
- Past participle
- deprived
- -ing form
- depriving
From the library
However, as if fate resolved on depriving the prisoners of their last chance, and making them understand that they were condemned to perpetual imprisonment, a new misfortune befell them; the gallery on the sea side, which had long been in ruins, was rebuilt.
You have deprived the best years of his life of that independence which was no less his due than his desert.
I sincerely hope your Christmas in Hertfordshire may abound in the gaieties which that season generally brings, and that your beaux will be so numerous as to prevent your feeling the loss of the three of whom we shall deprive you.’
“Her indifferent state of health unhappily prevents her being in town; and by that means, as I told Lady Catherine myself one day, has deprived the British Court of its brightest ornament.
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