| 单词 | deprive |
| 释义 | de·prive 1. obsolete < 'tis honor to deprive dishonored life — Shakespeare > 2. a. < last year's farm law that deprives farmers of soil conservation payments — Wall Street Journal > < the proposed boundary settlement would permanently deprive that country of Silesia and East Prussia — Marshall Knappen > b. < the Archbishop, accused of incontinence, would be deprived and sent to the Tower — Edith Sitwell > 3. < threatened to deprive American citizens of rights guaranteed them under the federal constitution — F.L.Mott > Synonyms: < to deprive a person of a week's wages > < I had deprived myself of rest and health — Mary W. Shelley > < the feeling that the system under which we live deprives the majority of the chance of a decent life — C.D.Lewis > dispossess usually applies to a removing or dislodging of a person in usually illegitimate possession, less often implies a depriving of possessions, sometimes implies a deprivation of rights, qualities, or properties < the family was dispossessed of their apartment and their furniture piled in the street > < he would at least try to dispossess her of the pistol — E.M.Lustgarten > < an attempt to dispossess nonproperty owners of voting rights > disinherit suggests an heir being deprived of the right to inherit an estate; in extension it often implies a robbing or divesting of a right, prerogative, or privilege, especially acquired by birth < disinherited by an angry father on his deathbed > < disinherited of all rights to citizenship or a decent livelihood > bereave means to deprive of something as by robbery, stripping, or seizing, usually implying suddenness or surprise and now tending to occur in the form bereaved when loss by death is implied, in the form bereft when such things as hope, peace, friends, or intelligence are implied < bereaved of both her parents and without a home of her own — Gabrielle Long > < the comedians full of jokes and bereft of humor — Bernard Kalb > < bereft of all hope of recovery > < to feel extremely bereaved after the death of a loved one > |
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