She is studying the effects of sleep deprivation.
She eventually overcame the deprivations of her childhood.
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: the act or process of removing or the condition resulting from removal of something normally present and usually essential for mental or physical well-being
his nervous system may have been affected by early oxygen deprivation—Jack Fincher
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