Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: deprive
IPA transcription: [dɪpɹ'aɪv]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: deprive, strip, divest
    Meaning: take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
  • Synonyms: deprive
    Meaning: keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
Usage examples
  • If you deprive me of that, take away my life also."
  • He said it was a plot to deprive him of his living by waking up the corpses.
  • "And thus deprive my little girl of her rights," he said, softly kissing the glowing cheek.
  • 'Sorry to deprive you of a pipe, Wegg,' he said, filling his own, 'but you can't do both together.
  • For although sensibility does not give incorruptibility, yet it cannot deprive intellectuality of its incorruptibility.
  • Thus stifled ability in the lower orders, and apathy or pampered incapacity in the higher, unite to deprive society of its natural leaders.
  • For to deprive a knight-errant of his lady is to deprive him of the eyes he sees with, of the sun that gives him light, of the food whereby he lives.
  • Thoroughly capable of managing her features, her anxiety was sufficient nevertheless to deprive her of power over her complexion, and she entered the room with the pallor peculiar to the dark-skinned.
  • The seignior could kill the serf with impunity, could deprive him of his wife, violate his daughter, pillage his house, and rob him of his savings; religion checked his invasions: it excommunicated the seignior.
  • But an indefinite power of taxation in the LATTER might, and probably would in time, deprive the FORMER of the means of providing for their own necessities; and would subject them entirely to the mercy of the national legislature.