deprive
deprive
verb
(
deprives
,
deprived
,
deprived
,
depriving
)
/dɪˈpraɪv/
Phrasal Verbs
→
deprive of
Word Origin
Middle English (in the sense ‘depose from office’): from Old French depriver, from medieval Latin deprivare, from de- ‘away, completely’ + privare ‘bereave, deprive’, from privus ‘single, individual’.