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Amission :: Amission (n.) Deprivation; loss.

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

Exsanguinity :: Exsanguinity (n.) Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora.

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..

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

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

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..

Disfranchisement :: Disfranchisement (n.) The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities..

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

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

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

Abridgment :: Abridgment (n.) The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses..

Deprivement :: Deprivement (n.) Deprivation.

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

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..

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

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

Orbation :: Orbation (n.) The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement..

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

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