Explore Deprive through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like strip or divest. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Deprive meaning
- Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
- To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
- To bereave.
Using Deprive
- The main meaning on this page is: Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something. | To degrade (a clergyman) from office. | To bereave.
- Useful related words include: strip, divest, take, withhold.
- In the example corpus, deprive often appears in combinations such as: to deprive, deprive the, would deprive.
Context around Deprive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 14 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Deprive
- In this selection, "deprive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, provisions, vindictively, malawian, nopporn and england stand out and add context to how "deprive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include decision to deprive her of and aimed to deprive criminals of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "deprive" sits close to words such as abode, acknowledgment and acquaintances, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with deprive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
More importantly, this will deprive Filipinos of health services they need. (11 words)
If you want to deprive the neighbors of this majestic sight, so be it. (14 words)
Shamima Begum failed in her legal bid to challenge the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship. (18 words)
Faced with the risk the umpires might take the players off the field for bad light, and so deprive England of yet more time to force a win, Stokes brought on off-spinner Moeen Ali and bowled him in tandem with Root. (42 words)
Deprive a child of that by ridiculing faith, abandoning ritual, and focusing instead on academic achievement and other forms of success, and you starve him or her of some of the most important elements of emotional and psychological well-being. (40 words)
Hundreds of people have objected, with concerns including that it would violate the need for open spaces and deprive the public, block views of Valletta and reduce the promenade that links Sliema to Gżira, Ta’ Xbiex and Msida. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
It means the public must develop new and creative ways to deprive the rich of their power to deprive the public of its claims and interests.
According to Botha government will continue to review and deprive Malawian Citizenship for all those individuals that did not comply with stipulated legal process.
Calver also found Nop and three WEH executives engaged in a “ring-fencing solution” to deprive Nopporn of payment, using a series of companies in Hong Kong to keep the shares out of reach.
Deprive a child of that by ridiculing faith, abandoning ritual, and focusing instead on academic achievement and other forms of success, and you starve him or her of some of the most important elements of emotional and psychological well-being.
Faced with the risk the umpires might take the players off the field for bad light, and so deprive England of yet more time to force a win, Stokes brought on off-spinner Moeen Ali and bowled him in tandem with Root.
Hundreds of people have objected, with concerns including that it would violate the need for open spaces and deprive the public, block views of Valletta and reduce the promenade that links Sliema to Gżira, Ta’ Xbiex and Msida.
If you want to deprive the neighbors of this majestic sight, so be it.
In this way, they “deprive Slovenian farmers of their place in the world, their families of the future, Slovenian nature of its guardian, and Slovenian citizens of our home-grown food”.
More importantly, this will deprive Filipinos of health services they need.
New provisions enhance regulatory flexibility, allowing Member States to deprive listed individuals of funds or economic resources in the public interest.
Plaintiffs have failed to show that BM 114’s permitting provisions deprive them of liberty, because BM 114’s permitting provisions do not violate their Second Amendment rights.
Refusal to do so would deprive them of the right to reside on the land, a principle creeping into Israeli policies.
Shamima Begum failed in her legal bid to challenge the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship.
Shamima Begum has failed in her legal bid to challenge the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship.
She may have the bigger salary, the better benefits, the superior office and the best portfolio, but Luke gets to vindictively deprive her of the only thing she doesn’t have: him.
Since then, the former IS bride has been embroiled in a battle with the British legal system - she lost her latest legal challenge over the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship on Wednesday.
So to ban gender transitioning procedures is to deprive people diagnosed with the condition of medical help in violation of the constitution and other Russian laws, according to the review.
Such a move would deprive the school’s graduates from sitting for the bar exam in any American state.
Such a pause would disproportionately benefit Russian troops and begin to deprive Ukraine of the initiative,” the think tank said late Thursday.
The AFP aimed to deprive criminals of their illegal wealth and stop them using the proceeds of crime to bankroll further criminal activity, he said.
Common combinations with deprive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: