Synonyms for deprive
dɪˈpraɪvde·prive

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1. depriveverb

   Synonyms:
   impoverish

   Antonyms:
   enrich

2. depriveverb

   To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.

   Synonyms:
   impoverish

   Antonyms:
   enrich

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1. deprive

   Synonyms:
   strip, bereave, despoil, rob, divest, dispossess, abridge, depose, prevent, hinder

   Antonyms:
   invest, endow, compensate, enrich, supply, present, reinstate, indemnify

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1. deprive, strip, divestverb

   take away possessions from someone

   "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

   Synonyms:
   strip down, clean, discase, leach, foray, divest, pillage, unclothe, dismantle, strip, disrobe, undress, reave, rifle, denude, uncase, impoverish, despoil, ransack, loot, peel, plunder, bare, denudate, disinvest

   Antonyms:
   enrich

2. depriveverb

   keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

   Synonyms:
   divest, impoverish, strip

   Antonyms:
   enrich

3. deprive, impoverishverb

   take away

   Synonyms:
   divest, impoverish, strip

   Antonyms:
   enrich

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1. • Withhold
   • Worsen

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1. depriveverb

   Synonyms:
   dispossess, divest, strip, rob, BEREAVE, take from

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1. depriveverb

   Synonyms:
   dispossess, strip, divest, despoil

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1. List of paraphrases for "deprive":

   deny, rob

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1. Lucien Kalusha:

   By closing the border like this, they deprive a lot of people of their earnings today. Most of the women here cross into Rwanda to find food for us in Goma.

2. Walid Abu Hassouna:

   If they could deprive us of the air we breathe, they would do it.

3. Susan Tyler Witten:

   At a time when my campaign is gaining momentum, my pathetic opponent who has hardly campaigned has resorted to a desperate attempt to deprive the voters of this district a choice in the November election.

4. Denys Shmyhal:

   The main targets were energy facilities to deprive Ukrainians of power and warmth, the majority of missiles and drones were intercepted by our defenders. Unfortunately there were hits at substations. Nevertheless the situation in the power grid remains under control. Power engineers are doing everything to provide power supply.

5. Burke:

   Superstition is the religion of feeble minds; and they must be tolerated in an admixture of it in some trifling or enthusiastic shape or other; else you will deprive weak minds of a resource found necessary to the strongest.