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, deprive, 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, deprive

   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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How to use deprive in a sentence?

1. H. Jackson Brown Jr.:

   Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

2. Andrew Smith:

   By putting people like Derek Jason Bartoli out of business, we are able to deprive the robocallers of the important tools of their trade.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   You don't want to deprive them to get the younger ones, because they're the ones that are going to wind up in the hospital and have a higher rate of death, what we don't want to do is to neglect them.

4. Ben Carson:

   I am a big supporter of the Second Amendment, and I don't want to deprive people unnecessarily of that. There needs to be better due process.

5. Sarah Brown:

   The vast loss of potential caused by the crisis in education threatens to deprive Syria of the skills it will need to rebuild a war-torn society.