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1. Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences
   "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law"; "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity";
   - disadvantaged

1. Take away possessions, function, power or title
   "The Nazis deprived the Jews of all their assets";
   - strip, divest
    
2. Keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

See also: underprivileged

Type of: keep back, take, withhold

Encyclopedia: Deprive