deprive

See also: déprivé and déprive

English

Alternative forms

• depryve (obsolete), deprieve (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English depryven, from Old French depriver, from Medieval Latin dēprīvō, from Latin dē- + prīvō. Displaced native Old English berēafian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɹaɪv/

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• Rhymes: -aɪv
• Hyphenation: de‧prive

Verb

deprive (third-person singular simple present deprives, present participle depriving, simple past and past participle deprived)

1. (transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

     "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."

   • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 260a:

     If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.

2. (transitive) To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
3. (transitive) To bereave.

Synonyms

• bereave
• impoverish

Antonyms

• enrich

Derived terms

• depriver (agent noun)

Related terms

• deprivation
• private
• privation
• privy

Translations

take something away; deny someone of something

• Arabic: أَفْقَدَ (ʔafqada)
• Azerbaijani: məhrum etmək, əldən almaq
• Bulgarian: лишавам (bg) (lišavam), отнемам (bg) (otnemam)
• Catalan: desposseir (ca), privar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 褫奪／褫夺 (ci² dyut⁶)

  Hokkien: 褫奪／褫夺 (thí-toa̍t)

  Mandarin: 剝奪／剥夺 (zh) (bōduó), 奪去／夺去 (zh) (duóqù), 褫奪／褫夺 (zh) (chǐduó)

• Czech: připravit (cs) pf, zbavit (cs) pf
• Danish: berøve
• Dutch: ontnemen (nl), beroven (nl)
• Finnish: poistaa (fi), riistää (fi), kiistää (fi)
• French: priver (de) (fr)
• Galician: privar (gl)
• German: berauben (de)
• Hungarian: megfoszt (hu)
• Italian: privare (it), togliere (it), sottrarre (it)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بێ بەشکردن (bê beşkirdin)

• Latin: viduō
• Norman: dêpriver
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: berøve (no)

• Old English: berēafian, bedǣlan, beniman
• Polish: pozbawić (pl), pozbawiać (pl)
• Portuguese: privar (pt)
• Russian: лиша́ть (ru) impf (lišátʹ), лиши́ть (ru) pf (lišítʹ), отнима́ть (ru) impf (otnimátʹ), отня́ть (ru) pf (otnjátʹ)
• Sanskrit: हरति (harati)
• Spanish: desproveer (es), privar (es)
• Swedish: beröva (sv), förvägra (sv), avhända (sv)
• Tocharian B: sāmp-

Anagrams

• predive, prieved