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Famish :: Famish (v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary..

Penury :: Penury (n.) Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

Deaf-mute :: Deaf-mute (n.) A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it..

Narcosis :: Narcosis (n.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic..

Degradement :: Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.

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

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

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

Blind :: Blind (a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight..

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

Bereavement :: Bereavement (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death..

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..

Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.

Mutilation :: Mutilation (n.) The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part..

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

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..

Avoidance :: Avoidance (n.) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent..

Deprivement :: Deprivement (n.) Deprivation.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1..

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

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