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Where does “deprive” come from?

Deprive comes from Old French depriver, from Medieval Latin deprivo, combining Latin de- with privus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European per-.

deprive (English): To take something away from and keep it away; to...

Definitions

  1. To take something away from and keep it away; to...

Words derived from “deprive”

  • deprived
  • deprival
  • prived
  • nondeprived
  • undeprived
  • depriver
  • indeprivable
  • deprivable
  • deprivement
  • deprivedly
  • dépriver