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    de·prived
    [dəˈprīvd]
    adjective
    deprived (adjective)
    1. suffering a severe and damaging lack of basic material and cultural benefits:
      "the charity cares for destitute and deprived children"
      • (of a person) suffering a lack of a specified benefit that is considered important:
        "I was so sleep deprived I was bumping into walls"
    de·prive
    [dəˈprīv]
    verb
    deprived (past tense) · deprived (past participle)
    1. deny (a person or place) the possession or use of something:
      "the city was deprived of its water supplies"
      • archaic
        depose (someone, especially a member of the clergy) from office:
        "Archbishop Bancroft deprived a considerable number of puritan clergymen"
    Origin
    Middle English (in the senses dispossess (a person) of something useful or valuable, ‘depose from office’): from Old French depriver, from medieval Latin deprivare, from de- ‘away, completely’ + privare (see private).
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    adjective
    1. suffering a severe and damaging lack of basic material and cultural benefits:
      disadvantaged
      underprivileged
      poverty-stricken
      impoverished
      poor
      destitute
      needy
      badly off
      depressed
      distressed
      forlorn
      penurious
      impecunious
      necessitous
      in need
      in want
      unable to make ends meet
      in reduced circumstances
      unable to keep the wolf from the door
      on the bread line
      Opposite:
      fortunate
      wealthy
      verb
      1. deny (a person or place) the possession or use of something:
        dispossess
        strip
        divest
        relieve
        bereave
        trick out of
        do out of
        deny
        rob of
        cheat out of
        prevent from having
        prevent from using
        diddle out of
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      Deprived means lacking adequate food, shelter, education, etc. or having undergone deprivation. See synonyms, pronunciation, collocations, sentences and grammar of deprived.

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      Being deprived means lacking important things like food and water. For example, when warm clothing, housing, and nutrition are in short supply, the people are deprived of basics of life.

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      What does sleep deprived mean?
      In short, it deprives us of all the things we value. Many who are sleep deprived think they are performing fine; when in fact, they are unaware of their performance decline. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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      What is a deprived childhood?
      marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law" Subject to deprivation; poor.

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      What is a deprived person?
      Deprived people or people from deprived areas do not have the things that people consider to be essential in life. These are some of the most deprived children in the country. Lacking adequate food, shelter, education, etc.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.

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      Are deprived people being deprived of a secure future?
      Many more have been deprived on other grounds. He said the allocation of new officers would leave more deprived areas worse off. She will say that youngsters are being deprived of a secure future. He said existing research already showed deprived patients were disadvantaged in the health care system.

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      adjective: [child, family] necesitado, desventajado; [area, district] marginado [...] Master the word "DEPRIVED" in English: definitions, translations, synonyms, pronunciations, examples, and grammar insights - all in one complete resource.

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