Deprive

Verb

 * 1) To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.
 * 2) * 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 260a.
 * If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.

Synonyms for Deprive
impoverish, strip, bereave, despoil, take, rob, abridge, debar, divest, depose, dispossess, separate.

Antonyms for Deprive
enrich, give, add, confer, help, assist, present, restore, return, repay, replace, supply, endow.

Derived terms

 * depriver (agent noun)

Related terms

 * deprivation
 * private
 * privation
 * privy

Thesaurus
abridge, bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, curtail, cut off, defrock, degrade, demote, denudate, denude, deny, deplume, depose, deprive of, disbar, discharge, disemploy, disentitle, disinherit, dismantle, dismiss, displace, displume, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, drain, drum out, ease one of, expel, expropriate, fire, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, lighten one of, lose, make redundant, milk, mine, mulct, oust, outfit, pension off, read out of, refuse, release, remove, replace, retire, rob, sack, separate forcibly, strip, superannuate, surplus, suspend, take away, take away from, take from, tap, turn off, turn out, unfrock, withdraw, withhold

Etymology
From deprivare, from de- + privare

Pronunciation

 * IPA: /dəˈprɑɪv/ or /dɪˈprɑɪv/ (/dəˈprɑɪvz/, /dəˈprɑɪvɪŋ/, /dəˈprɑɪvd/ or /dɪˈprɑɪvz/, /dɪˈprɑɪvɪŋ/, /dɪˈprɑɪvd/)

Translations

 * Bulgarian: лишавам, отнемам
 * Dutch:
 * French: priver (de), dénuer
 * Hungarian:
 * Kurdish:


 * Latin:
 * Old English: bedælan
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: beröva, förvägra