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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Their attitude was humane, courteous, sympathetic, agreeable, which qualities I firmly believe are supreme in those who know hardship, who suffer privation, who labour.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van

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)

If they suffered hardship once, they suffer privation now.

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

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