| 单词 | deprive |
| 释义 | deprive (once / 212 pages) v Deprive means to keep from having. If your little brother gets loud and hyper every time he eats sweets, your parents might deprive him of sugary cereal and candy. Deprive can also mean to take away something that someone already had, or feels they deserve to have, like basic human rights. "A crowd gathered to protest the man's imprisonment for a crime he did not commit; they didn't want to allow the government to deprive him of his freedom." The word comes from the Latin, de", which means "entirely," and privare, which means "release from." Put together, they mean to "entirely release from." In this case, the imprisoned man's freedom is being "entirely released," or taken away, and he'll no longer have it. WORD FAMILYdeprive: deprivation, deprived, deprives, depriving+/deprivation: deprivations USAGE EXAMPLESThe call deprived the Trojans’ suddenly beleaguered defense of its top tackler. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The lawyer told the Daily News Egypt newspaper that his client was subjected to interrogations that deprived him of sleep for nearly 40 hours. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) They argue that skipping the lengthier deportation procedures deprives people of the opportunity to claim asylum. Reuters(Jan 01, 2017) 1v take away Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper impoverish enrich make better or improve in quality disestablish deprive (an established church) of its status decline, worsen grow worse 2v take away possessions from someone Syn|Hypo|Hyper divest, strip disarm, unarm take away the weapons from; render harmless expropriatedeprive of possessions cleandeprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc. dispossessdeprive of the possession of real estate clean outdeprive completely of money or goods unclothestrip unsexdeprive of sex or sexual powers orphandeprive of parents bereavedeprive through death demilitarise, demilitarizedo away with the military organization and potential of take take into one's possession 3v keep from having, keeping, or obtaining Hypo|Hyper ablactate, wean gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk famish, starvedeprive of food starvedeprive of a necessity and cause suffering tongue-tiedeprive of speech dockdeprive someone of benefits, as a penalty bilkevade payment to disinherit, disownprevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting impoverishmake poor disenfranchise, disfranchisedeprive of voting rights reducelessen and make more modest beggar, pauperise, pauperizereduce to beggary bankrupt, break, ruin, smashreduce to bankruptcy keep back, withhold hold back; refuse to hand over or share |
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