deprive
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Deprive a man of an elevator or a flight of stairs, and could he make it from the first floor to the second?
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2016
Deprive people of the words with which to resist, and you will crush resistance.
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2013
Some More Than Others Your Brain on Computers: Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime Time without digital input can allow people to learn better or come up with new ideas.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2010
Deprive a man of food for three days and he will respond biologically.
From Time Magazine Archive
Deprive Euler of his eyesight, and he but studies harder upon mental problems, thus developing marvelous powers of mathematical calculation.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
Vocabulary lists containing deprive
The Declaration of Independence
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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