OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 22956

deprive

/dɪˈpɹaɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desproveer • privar
Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so won…
If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.