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verb (depriv, ing)
  1. To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.
    • 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 260a.
    • : If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: ontnemen
  • French: priver (de)
Etymology: From deprivare, from de- + privare


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