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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abridge, bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, boot, bounce, break, bump, bust, can, cashier, curtail, cut off, defrock, degrade, demote, denudate, denude, deny, deplume, depose, deprive of, disbar, discharge, disemploy, disentitle, disinherit, dismantle, dismiss, displace, displume, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, drain, drum out, ease one of, expel, expropriate, fire, furlough, give the ax, give the gate, kick, kick upstairs, lay off, let go, let out, lighten one of, lose, make redundant, milk, mine, mulct, oust, outfit, pension off, read out of, refuse, release, remove, replace, retire, rob, sack, separate forcibly, strip, superannuate, surplus, suspend, take away, take away from, take from, tap, turn off, turn out, unfrock, withdraw, withhold
Dictionary Results for deprive:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
deprive
    v 1: take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the
         Jews of all their assets" [syn: deprive, strip,
         divest]
    2: keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
    3: take away [syn: deprive, impoverish] [ant: enrich]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Deprive \De*prive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deprived; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Depriving.] [LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest
   of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF.
   depriver. See Private.]
   1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.]
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            'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. --Shak.
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   2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from
      possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter
      object, usually preceded by of.
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            God hath deprived her of wisdom.      --Job xxxix.
                                                  17.
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            It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over
            himself.                              --Macaulay.
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   3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity,
      especially ecclesiastical.
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            A minister deprived for inconformity. --Bacon.

   Syn: To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.
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