Definition of deprivation

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Deprivation (n.) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity..

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Degradement :: Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.
Disablement :: Disablement (n.) Deprivation of ability; incapacity.
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..
Disincorporation :: Disincorporation (n.) Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation.
Disfranchisement :: Disfranchisement (n.) The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised; deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities..
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..
Deprivement :: Deprivement (n.) Deprivation.
Famish :: Famish (v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary..
Disadvantage :: Disadvantage (n.) Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury..
Blind :: Blind (a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight..
Divestiture :: Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc..
Amotion :: Amotion (n.) Deprivation of possession.
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..
Disworship :: Disworship (n.) A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit.
Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
Maim :: Maim (v.) The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.
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..
Bereavement :: Bereavement (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death..
Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity..
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