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suffer privation

VERB
need
Synonyms
STRONGEST
call for demand desire lack require
STRONG
claim covet crave exact hanker hunger long lust miss necessitate pine thirst wish yearn
WEAK
be deficient be deprived be down and out be hard up be in need of be in want be inadequate be needy be poor be short be without die for do without drive for feel a dearth of feel the necessity for feel the pinch go hungry have occasion for have occasion to have use for hurt for yen for
Antonyms
STRONGEST
have not want
STRONG
abjure despise dislike give hate
WEAK
do not want

Example Sentences

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In this war it is trifling ... if one folk must suffer privation in this or that way.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is certain that at no time . . . will my mother suffer privation.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it came at last in overflowing measure, as it almost invariably does to those who are willing to work and suffer privation and persevere to the end.

From Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life by Marden, Orison Swett

If they suffered hardship once, they suffer privation now. 

From The Spirit of Place and Other Essays by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

He replied that if the old fellow was so unfortunate as to have a bad temper as well as his physical infirmities that was no reason why he should be allowed to suffer privation.

From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay)