To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.
The word "deprive" is correct and usable in written English. It is a verb and is used to mean to take away (something from someone) or to prevent someone from having something. Example: The oppressive government rules deprive the citizens of basic human rights.
The researchers conducting the drug trials opted to give the treatments to all patients who want them, with the support of a World Health Organisation ethics committee, which decided that the death rate was so high it would be unethical to deprive anybody of a drug that might work.
But who knows at what age Barlow began planning to present the public face of a charitable do-gooder, while secretly scheming to deprive the weak and vulnerable of succour, if indeed he ever did so?
The same level of shortfall in the next parliament would deprive the Treasury of £109bn in revenue, the party says.
On Thursday, opinion polls by Ipsos/Mori and YouGov suggested Labour faced the prospect of losing most of its 41 Scottish seats to the SNP in next May's general election – enough, potentially, to deprive it of a majority in Westminster.
The barbarians are hacking down the legacy of Assyria while we quietly deprive our state school children of the wonderful gifts of the Greeks.
That's why Labour's economic credibility has polled so poorly over the past five years, the weak point that may yet help deprive the party of victory.
Totally Wicked, which employs 150 people in Blackburn, Lancashire, says rules due to come into force in May 2016 are disproportionate and deprive consumers of an alternative source of "recreational" nicotine.
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