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- Dictionarydeprive/dɪˈprʌɪv/
verb
- 1. prevent (a person or place) from having or using something: "the city was deprived of its water supplies"
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DEPRIVE definition: 1. to prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need: 2. to prevent…. Learn more.
The meaning of DEPRIVE is to take something away from. How to use deprive in a sentence.
If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it.
DEPRIVE meaning: 1. to prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need: 2. to prevent…. Learn more.
1. to divest of something possessed or enjoyed; dispossess; strip. 2. to keep from possessing or enjoying something withheld: to deprive a child of affection. 3. to remove from office.
Deprive means to keep from having. If your little brother gets loud and hyper every time he eats sweets, your parents might deprive him of sugary cereal and candy. Deprive can also mean to take away something that someone already had, or feels they deserve to have, like basic human rights.
verb (used with object) , de·prived, de·priv·ing. to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons): to deprive a man of life; to deprive a baby of candy. to remove from ecclesiastical office. deprive. / dɪˈpraɪv / verb. foll by of to prevent from possessing or enjoying; dispossess (of) archaic.
