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To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. A mingled, imperfect virtue. Rogers.

Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline. [Obs.]

To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.

Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne.

ng] -- To thrust one's nose into, to meddle officiously in. -- To wipe one's nose of, to deprive of; to rob. [Slang]

To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy. Such correspondence would at once nullify the conditions of the probationary system. I. Taylor.

To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy. For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. Dryden. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Tennyson.

To deprive of a limb; to lop. [R.]

The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents. Young.

A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection. Blackstone.

ut of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.

To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.

Deprived of parents.

To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.]

Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll. Specifically: (a) Lopped; -- said of trees having their tops cut off.

The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.

to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.

To deprive of the pulp, or integument. The other mode is to pulp the coffee immediately as it comes from the tree. By a simple machine a man will pulp a bushel in a minute. B. Edwards.