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

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

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

Spoliation :: Spoliation (v. t.) The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.

Thirst :: Thirst (n.) A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation..

Maim :: Maim (v.) The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary..

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

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

Death :: Death (v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory..

Apathy :: Apathy (n.) Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion..

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

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.

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..

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..

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

Amotion :: Amotion (n.) Deprivation of possession.

Disincorporation :: Disincorporation (n.) Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.

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

Disworship :: Disworship (n.) A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit.

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