deprive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb take away possessions from someone
    divest; strip.
    • The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets
  2. verb keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
  3. verb take away
    impoverish.

WordNet

De*prive" transitive verb
Etymology
LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver. See Private.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Deprived ; present participle & verbal noun Depriving
Definitions
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. Obs.
    'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak.
  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.
    God hath deprived her of wisdom. Job xxxix. 17.
    It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. Macaulay.
  3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
    A miniser deprived for inconformity. Bacon.
    Syn. -- To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.

Webster 1913