Definition: 1. Take away possessions from someone. 2. Keep from having, keeping, or obtaining. 3. Take away.
Use 'deprive' in a sentence:
1. How do we not deprive our youngest child of what our other children had because we had more money then?
2. Usually when a girl is deprived of a brother, this male ends up being the replacement and he means the world to her.
3. Workers are expected to give back 574 million vacation days in 2006, depriving themselves of much-needed breaks, according to Expedia. com's annual vacation deprivation survey.
4. Could I deprive her of her lifelong lie, without opening some vision of a future to her?
5. But what happens if you deprive yourself too much is that it usually leads to overeating.
6. Are you going to deprive me of my right not to sit down?
7. Now lump-of-labourites say that keeping the old at work would deprive the young of employment.
8. Quite naturally, these managers are averse to depriving themselves of able subordinates.
9. The progress of modern technology has deprived many people of work opportunities.
10. This will deprive your body of vital energy needs.
11. Remember, don't deprive yourself of the foods you love.
12. So the plan would deprive many and probably most seniors of adequate health care.
13. We have no right to deprive their life.
14. The inequality is startling – and it's a similar story for males: a baby boy born in a deprived district of Blackpool can expect just 47 years of healthy life, while in Knightsbridge in London it's 79.
15. They are usually regarded as spiritual victims of fast-paced jobs which deprive them of learning time.
16. This is, in effect, depriving people of their right to be creative.
17. Jan Vokes ( Toni Collette) runs a shop in a small, deprived town in Wales.
18. But the deal would deprive Iran of any justification for enriching to higher levels itself.
19. Depriving an owner of property by taking it for public use.
20. It may deprive a team of business opportunities.
21. Joe doesn't deprive himself of food.
22. Nobody has the right to deprive us Cubans on the island of what they enjoy quite naturally abroad.
23. Now let's say you deprive yourself of sleep for a week.
24. Being single can deprive you of your ability to enjoy life.
25. To deprive the boy of his education is a violation of state law.
26. It would be wrong to purposely deprive people of an essential nutrient in order to study the effects.
27. Don't deprive yourself.
28. We do this because we usually deprive our bodies of adequate calories the first half of the day.
29. Scientists gave 38 households in an economically deprived part of Salford in the north of England a tree, a shrub1, and some other flowering plants.
30. By killing4 seabirds, the rats deprive a reef of nutrient-rich seabird droppings that naturally fertilise it.
31. It is betraying the public's will to deprive animals of their lives casually and brutally.
32. Sleep! Deprive your brain of sleep long enough and you’ll simply go crazy.
33. They wanted to deprive us of the unity that defines us as a people.
34. Sufferers typically cut out entire food groups-often in the mistaken belief they are unhealthy or their bodies are intolerant to them-thereby depriving themselves of essential nutrition and vitamins.
35. If we don't, we deprive others of the knowledge of our love and ourselves of the joy that comes from expressing it.
36. Remember, don't deprive yourself of the foods you love. All foods can fit into a well-balanced diet.
37. Don't try and deprive me of the pleasure of giving you a treat!
38. The function of a well-designed state intervention is not to deprive people of liberty but to build social capacity and infrastructure that helps people take responsibility for their wellbeing.
39. The striver contrives to derive that privacy can't be deprived.
40. Why should you deprive yourself of such simple pleasures?
41. In 1530 it meant to paralyze, deaden, stupefy, to stun or deprive of sensation, as by a blow.
42. This law will deprive us of our most basic rights.
43. It would have been rough justice had he been deprived of this important third European win.
44. They deprived the criminal of political rights for all his life.
45. They were imprisoned and deprived of their basic rights.
46. They are deprived of the ability to exercise the most rudimentary workers' rights.
47. the stunted lives of children deprived of education.
48. The disintegration of the Soviet Union deprived western intelligence agencies of their main enemies.
49. Money should be spent on compensatory programmes for deprived pre-school and infant-school children.
50. They've been deprived of the fuel necessary to heat their homes.
51. Lung cancer deprived him of his life.
52. The accident deprived him of his life.
53. They deprived a large number of the overseas Chinese of their means of livelihood and drove them out of their residences in dire poverty.
54. Most delinquent children have deprived backgrounds.
55. As a group, today's old people are still relatively deprived.
56. For 44 years he had ministered to the poor, the sick, the neglected and the deprived.
57. Though his background was modest, it was in no sense deprived.
58. Some addicts suffer violent mood swings if deprived of the drug.
