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DEPRIVED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences
Example:
boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law
Synonyms:
deprived; disadvantaged
Classified under:
Similar:
underprivileged (lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb deprive
Context examples:
But when the team checked the activity of the microglial cells across the four groups, they found that it had also ramped up in the chronically sleep-deprived group.
(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Such "reduced" clays are common in many parts of the world, typically forming in volcanic ash layers as rocks become altered by water that is oxygen-deprived and hydrogen-rich.
(Scientists discover how blue and green clays kill bacteria, NSF)
My friend’s temper had not improved since he had been deprived of the congenial surroundings of Baker Street.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The scientists found that the larvae oriented to the magnetic northwest in the chamber, and, although deprived of all other environmental cues, oriented toward the same magnetic direction in the MagLab.
(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)
By her next speech, Jo deprived herself of several years of pleasure, and received a timely lesson in the art of holding her tongue.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I do not, said Mr. Micawber, regret my hair, and I may have been deprived of it for a specific purpose.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He was equally certain that the same stranger had, while standing at the window, drugged his curried mutton, and so deprived the stables of their watchman.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set; and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Sir Hugh Calverley and Sir Robert Knolles had not yet returned from their raid into the marches of the Navarre, so that the English party were deprived of two of their most famous lances.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was tranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usual employment, slumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near her, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax, standing with her back to them, intent on her pianoforte.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
