Synonyms for deprive
dɪˈpraɪvde·prive

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1. depriveverb

   Synonyms:
   impoverish

   Antonyms:
   enrich

2. depriveverb

   To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.

   Synonyms:
   impoverish

   Antonyms:
   enrich

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1. deprive

   Synonyms:
   strip, bereave, despoil, rob, divest, dispossess, abridge, depose, prevent, hinder

   Antonyms:
   invest, endow, compensate, enrich, supply, present, reinstate, indemnify

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1. deprive, strip, divestverb

   take away possessions from someone

   "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

   Synonyms:
   strip down, clean, discase, leach, foray, divest, pillage, unclothe, dismantle, strip, disrobe, undress, reave, rifle, denude, uncase, impoverish, despoil, ransack, loot, peel, plunder, bare, denudate, disinvest

   Antonyms:
   enrich

2. depriveverb

   keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

   Synonyms:
   divest, impoverish, strip

   Antonyms:
   enrich

3. deprive, impoverishverb

   take away

   Synonyms:
   divest, impoverish, strip

   Antonyms:
   enrich

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1. • Withhold
   • Worsen

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1. depriveverb

   Synonyms:
   dispossess, divest, strip, rob, BEREAVE, take from

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1. depriveverb

   Synonyms:
   dispossess, strip, divest, despoil

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1. List of paraphrases for "deprive":

   deny, rob

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1. Albert Gallatin:

   The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

2. Biden White:

   We're not going to deprive these executives their second or third home, travel privately by jet, it's not going to affect their standard of living at all. Not a little tiny bit. But I can affect the standard of living that people I grew up with.

3. Susan Tyler Witten:

   At a time when my campaign is gaining momentum, my pathetic opponent who has hardly campaigned has resorted to a desperate attempt to deprive the voters of this district a choice in the November election.

4. Dan Egan:

   The point is not to be as austere as possible and deprive yourself of all joy, the point is to get to a right balance.

5. Wallace Stevens:

   To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.