Definition of Deprive

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Deprive

To take away; to put an end; to destroy.

To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.

To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.

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Deprive Quotations

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mohandas Gandhi

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
Doug Larson

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
Paul Valery

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Deprive Translations

deprive in German is berauben
deprive in Italian is sottrarre
deprive in Latin is exuo
deprive in Spanish is privar

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