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Definition of deprive verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

deprive

verb
 
/dɪˈpraɪv/
 
/dɪˈpraɪv/
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘depose from office’): from Old French depriver, from medieval Latin deprivare, from de- ‘away, completely’ + privare ‘bereave, deprive’, from privus ‘single, individual’.
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they deprive
 
/dɪˈpraɪv/
 
/dɪˈpraɪv/
he / she / it deprives
 
/dɪˈpraɪvz/
 
/dɪˈpraɪvz/
past simple deprived
 
/dɪˈpraɪvd/
 
/dɪˈpraɪvd/
past participle deprived
 
/dɪˈpraɪvd/
 
/dɪˈpraɪvd/
-ing form depriving
 
/dɪˈpraɪvɪŋ/
 
/dɪˈpraɪvɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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