deprive

deprive

verb

Definition of DEPRIVE

1

to take something away from <working those long hours was depriving him of his sleep>

Synonyms abate, bereave, divest, strip

Related Words denude; cheat, clean (out), defraud, shortchange; bankrupt, disfurnish, impoverish

2

to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne) <one of scores of bishops who had been deprived after the anticlericals came to power>

Synonyms defrock, deprive, dethrone, displace, oust, uncrown, unmake, unseat, unthrone

Related Words can, cashier, discharge, dismiss, fire, muster out, remove, retire, sack; overthrow, subvert, supplant, topple, usurp; banish, boot (out), bounce, cast out, chase, drum (out), eject, expel, extrude, rout, run off, throw out

Near Antonyms baptize, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, instate, invest; appoint, designate, elect

Antonyms crown, enthrone, throne