deprive

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For the Adjutant-General and his staff, who know the numbers of all the Field Ambulances, can lay hands--but not in the apostolic sense--upon every chaplain attached thereto; the A.G. is the Metropolitan of them all and can admonish, deprive, and suspend The D.A.A.G.

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  1. transitive verb To take something away from: The court ruling deprived us of any share in the inheritance.
  2. transitive verb To keep from possessing or enjoying; deny: They were deprived of a normal childhood by the war.
  3. transitive verb To remove from office.

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  • But no investigation has deprived, or is at all likely to deprive, the Essays in Criticism of their place as an epoch-making book, as the manual of a new and often independent, but, on the whole, like-minded, critical movement in England. —  Matthew Arnold
  • Although you wouldn't suggest an alcoholic take an occasional drink, there's a popular notion that you shouldn't "deprive" yourself of these foods. —  BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
  • "When you deprive your brain of rest, you start going slowly crazy." —  MoneyBlogNetwork
  • She was helping to deprive businesses around the country of capital they would have had, if that capital had not been made available to be consumed to the extent of $1,200 for each and every Alaskan. —  SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists
  • Honestly, I think its a man thing … he doesn't want to deprive the dog of his balls …. which he will never get to use anyway. —  YummY! Down on This
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  1. Middle English depriven, from Old French depriver, from Medieval Latin dēprīvāre : Latin dē-, de- + Latin prīvāre, to rob (from prīvus, alone, without; see per1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English depriven, from Old French depriver from Middle Latin deprivare, deprive of office, depose, from Latin de- + privare, deprive, past participle privatus, separate, private: see private, privation.
 

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