deprive

• depryve (obsolete),[1] deprieve (archaic) [2] [3]

From Middle English depryven, from Old French depriver, from Medieval Latin dēprīvō, from Latin dē- + prīvō. Displaced native Old English berēafian.

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɹaɪv/

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• Rhymes: -aɪv
• Hyphenation: de‧prive

deprive (third-person singular simple present deprives, present participle depriving, simple past and past participle deprived)

1. (transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

     "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."

   • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 260a:

     If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.

2. (transitive) To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
3. (transitive) To bereave.

• bereave
• impoverish

• enrich

• depriver (agent noun)

• deprivation
• private
• privation
• privy

• predive, prieved