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Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy. [R.] Shak.

The act of disquieting; a state of disquiet. [Obs.] [It] roars and strives 'gainst its disquietal. Dr. H. More.

To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree. Milton.

To deprive of the rudder, as a ship.

To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. [Written also disseise.] Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland…

end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament. Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life. Shak.

To deprive of sweetness. [R.] Bp. Richardson.

To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. Drayton.

To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant. "Distempered spirits." Coleridge.

To banish or drive from a country. [Obs.] Howell.

To deprive of title or right. [R.] B. Jonson.

To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.

To deprive of utility; to render useless. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. [Obs.] Drayton.

To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom. [R.] Bp. Hall.

To deprive of worth; to degrade. [Obs.] Feltham.

n aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that diverted Eve. Milton.

Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.

A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna. [India] Am. Cyc.

An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.