sleep deprivation

1. 1.

   a form of psychological torture inflicted by depriving the victim of sleep

   Broadertorture

Questions about sleep deprivation

What does sleep deprivation mean?

sleep deprivation means "a form of psychological torture inflicted by depriving the victim of sleep".

Is sleep deprivation a common word?

sleep deprivation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.