| 单词 | privation |
| 释义 | privation (once / 1095 pages) n If you're lacking the basic necessities of life — food, water, political freedom, and so on — you're suffering from privation. Privation has become a rather old-fashioned word, and when used now is often with irony: present day privations are usually of the order of not having wireless Internet or video games. It's interesting to compare privation with the similar word deprivation, which is used more commonly now. Deprivation usually suggests that someone or something has actually caused the privation. WORD FAMILYprivation: privations USAGE EXAMPLESMy status protected me from many of the privations of life in the Soviet Union, but it did not tint my vision rose. Wall Street Journal(Dec 16, 2016) I got an earful about the absurdity of revolutionary Cuba, the privation, the frustration, the alienation. Wall Street Journal(Nov 27, 2016) The privations of war intrude here, as everywhere. New York Times(Nov 21, 2016) 1n act of depriving someone of food or money or rights nutritional privation Syn|Hypo|Hyper deprivation impoverishment, pauperisation, pauperization the act of making someone poor starvation, starvingthe act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine social control control exerted (actively or passively) by group action 2n a state of extreme poverty Syn|Hyper deprivation, neediness, want impoverishment, poorness, poverty the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions |
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