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. Law School professor Richard Briffault:

   The executive order itself does not do anything that carries legal consequences, the( executive order) is actually pretty toothless in that all of the sections of law he invokes do not deprive the Department of Health of its power as the ultimate decision maker regarding measures necessary to inhibit the spread of communicable diseases as outlined in Section 1003.22( 3) of Florida Statutes.

2. Aristotle:

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

3. Keir Starmer:

   We're not going to vote with Boris Johnson today to deprive ourselves of the opportunity to complete the business that we've just seized control of the house to do.

4. 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.

5. Jimmy Carter:

   Anybody that has a daughter or granddaughter knows how precious that person can be, ... And anybody who is interested in the future of (their) country or city that if they deprive half of their own citizens of an equal right to an education or an honest job, then their whole community is going to suffer.