Deprived

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deprive \De*prive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deprived}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Depriving}.] [LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest
     of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF.
     depriver. See {Private}.]
     1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.]
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              'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. --Shak.
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     2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from
        possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter
        object, usually preceded by of.
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              God hath deprived her of wisdom.      --Job xxxix.
                                                    17.
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              It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over
              himself.                              --Macaulay.
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     3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity,
        especially ecclesiastical.
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              A minister deprived for inconformity. --Bacon.
  
     Syn: To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  deprived \deprived\ adj.
     marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life
     or healthful environmental or social influences; as, a
     childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living
     off charity; boys from a deprived environment, wherein the
     family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation,
     and disregard for law.
  
     Syn: disadvantaged.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deprived
       adj : marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life
             or healthful environmental influences; "a childhood
             that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off
             charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein
             the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral
             degradation, and disregard for law" [syn: {disadvantaged}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "deprived":
     badly off, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, depressed,
     destitute, disadvantaged, fatherless, fleeced, ghettoized,
     impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant,
     motherless, necessitous, needy, on relief, orphan, orphaned,
     out at elbows, parentless, pauperized, poor, poverty-stricken,
     starveling, stripped, underprivileged, widowed