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4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
deprived \deprived\ adjective
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.
[WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deprive \De*prive"\, verb (used with an object) [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.]
'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 minister deprived for inconformity. --Bacon.
Syn: To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
deprived
adjective: 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
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