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   deprive

   /dɪˈprʌɪv/

   verb

   • 1. prevent (a person or place) from having or using something: "the city was deprived of its water supplies"
   • ▪ depose (someone, especially a member of the clergy) from office: "the Archbishop deprived a considerable number of puritan clergymen"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘depose from office’): from Old French depriver, from medieval Latin deprivare, from de- ‘away, completely’ + privare (see private).

   Derivatives

   • 1. deprival noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

   • D

     2

   • E

     1

   • P

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   • R

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   • I

     1

   • V

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   • E

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