deprive

Other forms of deprive

past tense

deprived·

present participle

depriving·

third person

deprives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deprive

What does deprive mean?

deprive means "take away possessions from someone". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deprive?

deprive has 2 syllables: de-prive. The stress falls on "prive". In IPA it is /dɪˈpɹaɪv/.

What is another word for deprive?

Close synonyms include strip, divest, impoverish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of deprive?

The recorded antonyms are enrich.

Is deprive a common word?

deprive is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.