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  • adjective Deprived

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Examples

  • Thus, the decision admits that Jews in Romania and Bulgaria were prived of liberty in the Nazi way.

    Oppressed Jews in Romania and Bulgaria: victims of the Holocaust 2008

  • Multi-caches and Puzzle caches are fun, but is always nice to bring hints that are prived with you just in case you need to use them ;

    We're Going Geocaching Darren Kuropatwa 2007

  • Crawling in the gutter on bleeding hands, he had managed to strangle his barely conscious antagonist with fingers clawed with hatred, seeing with immense satisfaction the tongue emerge between bloody lips, hearing the terrible thick gurgling of lungs de - prived of oxygen, the heavy stench of fresh fecal matter.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • Yet even when the results are applied to “physics” — to the real bodies of the solar system — these are treated as bodies qualitatively similar, de - prived of what John Locke would have called their

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

  • To whom Jacob was wroth, and answered: What! weenest thou that I were God and hath prived from thee the fruit of thy belly?

    The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

  • Nadaber, found there two enchanters named Zaroes and Arphaxat, which enchanted the men by their art, so that whom that they would, should seem that thy were prived of the health and office of their members.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • And all this because they have been humiliated, because they have been de - prived of rights equal to those which men enjoy.

    The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription] 1890

  • Over prived cars and stuff have a hard time because the stupid days are over.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are de - prived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive compensation (such as wages) in re - turn for their labor.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • Now to answer your pist, since you prived me right and did not answer mine.

    legitgov 2008

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