Deprive

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: de=prive

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Deprive, v.tr.
1 (usu. foll. by of) strip, dispossess; debar from enjoying (illness deprived him of success).
2 (as deprived adj.) a (of a child etc.) suffering from the effects of a poor or loveless home. b (of an area) with inadequate housing, facilities, employment, etc.
3 archaic depose (esp. a clergyman) from office.

Derivative

deprivable adj. deprival n.

Etymology

ME f. OF depriver f. med.L deprivare (as DE-, L privare deprive)

THESAURUS

Deprive

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