deprived
/dɪˈpɹaɪvd/ adjective B2- Subject to deprivation; poor.
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“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.
You have deprived the best years of his life of that independence which was no less his due than his desert.
How grievous then was the thought that, of a situation so desirable in every respect, so replete with advantage, so promising for happiness, Jane had been deprived, by the folly and indecorum of her own family!
The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day.
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