Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word depriv.
Examples
-
Today, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court gutted the honest-services fraud statute -- "depriv [ing] another of the intangible right of honest services" -- declaring it unconstitutionally vague.
Gary S. Chafetz: SUPREME COURT FINALLY GUTS HONEST-SERVICE FRAUD 2010
-
Walton, Frankenstein "rushes" in frightened disgust from his makeshift laboratory and, finally giving way to exhaustion after long "depriv [ing him] self of rest and health" (Shelley 52), throws himself on his bed, with his most conscious thoughts of escape from his problems being focussed on his fiancee, Elizabeth Lavenza:
Hogle, Introduction, Frankenstein's Dream, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles 2003
-
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have shown that the effects of sleep depriv ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
-
The Fourteenth Amendment further confirms the new sense of the United States as a national community with its clause prohibiting the states from "depriv [ing] any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; [or denying] to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
-
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have shown that the effects of sleep depriv ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
-
Affluent people are 50 per cent more likely to take part in bowel cancer screening than their depriv ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
-
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have shown that the effects of sleep depriv ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
-
** The Virtue of a good Name J the Way and Duty of getting ainl preserving it; together witli the Sin of depriv ing another of it; in a Sermmi preached in the Parish Church of St. W'erburgh, Dublin, Nov. U
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... John Nichols, Samuel Bentley 1812
-
It feemed more natural to think, that it was fome peafant depriv - ed of his reafon.
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of ... 1797
-
Bciltimores in poflTtrflion of their revenues, but depriv*
A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America ... 1779
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.