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Out :: Out (a.) Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into, a state of want, loss, or deprivation; -- used of office, business, property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest..

Wean :: Wean (a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment..

Deprivement :: Deprivement (n.) Deprivation.

Disadvantage :: Disadvantage (n.) Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury..

Privative :: Privative (a.) Causing privation; depriving.

Privation :: Privation (n.) The condition of being absent; absence; negation.

Privative :: Privative (a.) Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less..

Privation :: Privation (n.) The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations..

Hardship :: Hardship (n.) That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc..

Divestiture :: Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc..

Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity..

Famish :: Famish (v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

Inebriation :: Inebriation (n.) The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success..

Mortification :: Mortification (n.) Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.

Loss :: Loss (v. t.) The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing..

Disablement :: Disablement (n.) Deprivation of ability; incapacity.

Exauthoration :: Exauthoration (n.) Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration.

Taint :: Taint (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.

Mortling :: Mortling (n.) An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling..

Maim :: Maim (v.) The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.

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