deprived

deprived
    adj 1: 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" [syn: {deprived},
           {disadvantaged}]
    

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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deprived \deprived\ adj.
   marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life
   or healthful environmental or social influences; as, 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.

   Syn: disadvantaged.
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32 Moby Thesaurus words for "deprived":
      badly off, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, depressed,
      destitute, disadvantaged, fatherless, fleeced, ghettoized,
      impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant,
      motherless, necessitous, needy, on relief, orphan, orphaned,
      out at elbows, parentless, pauperized, poor, poverty-stricken,
      starveling, stripped, underprivileged, widowed