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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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The meaning of DEPRIVE is to take something away from. How to use deprive in a sentence.
The meaning of DEPRIVED is marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or of healthful environmental influences. How to use deprived in a sentence.
DEPRIVE definition: 1. to prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need: 2. to prevent…. Learn more.
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.
Deprive definition: to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons). See examples of DEPRIVE used in a sentence.
not having the things that are necessary for a pleasant life, such as enough money, food, or good living conditions: She had a deprived childhood /comes from a deprived background. a deprived area. Synonym. disadvantaged.
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.
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.
Definition of deprive verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
