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deprive

verb as in keep or take away something wanted, needed

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He says this as if he was deprived of oxygen.

The national pilot scheme saw nearly 8,500 people prescribed nature activities in its first two years, with more than half those patients living in socio-economically deprived areas.

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Drugmakers opposed most-favored-nation pricing, arguing that it would deprive them of funding needed to develop future medicines and that it could jeopardize the billions in the recently announced planned investments.

Above ground it is a low-slung angular wisp of an object, whose cladding in mirrored steel deprives it of any sense of form or substance.

The two boys subjected to the 2017 beatings were subsequently deprived of food and left for weeks to sleep in the open.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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