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402 words match “DEPRIVE”

DISEASE v.
To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress. [Obs.] His double burden did him sore disease. Spenser.
DISEDGE v.
To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull. Served a little to disedge The sharpness of that pain about her heart. Tennyson.
DISELDER v.
To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder. [Obs.] Fuller.
DISEMBELLISH v.
To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.
DISEMBOWERED a.
Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [Poetic] Bryant.
DISEMPLOYMENT n.
The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
DISEMPOWER v.
To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
DISENDOW v.
To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.
DISENFRANCHISE v.
To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen. -- Dis`en*fran"chise*ment, n.
DISENNOBLE v.
To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade. An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man. Guardian.
DISENTITLE v.
To deprive of title or claim. Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father. South.
DISESTABLISH v.
To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.
DISESTEEM v.
To deprive of esteem; to bring into disrepute; to cause to be regarded with disfavor. [Obs.] What fables have you vexed, what truth redeemed, Antiquities searched, opinions disesteemed B. Jonson.
DISEXERCISE v.
To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [Obs.] By disexercising and blunting our abilities. Milton.
DISFEATURE v.
To deprive of features; to mar the features of. [R.]
DISFOREST v.
To clear or deprive of forests or trees.
DISFRANCHISE v.
To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc. Sir William Fitzwilliam was disfranchised. Fabyan (1509). He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs. Thirlwall.…
DISFURNISH v.
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
DISGALLANT v.
To deprive of gallantry. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
DISGARRISON v.
To deprive of a garrison. Hewyt.
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