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To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.] 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak.

Deprivation. [R.]

One who, or that which, deprives.

To reduce in estimation; to deprive. [Obs.] She hath abated me of half my train. Shak.

To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.

To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

To deprive of. [Obs.] When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its honor for the person's sake. Herbert.

To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.

To deprive (of), or take away (from). [Obs.]

To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.

To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away. Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Shak. Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. Tickell.

To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. "To blind the truth and me." Tennyson. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South.

A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.

Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.

To deprive of cap. [Obs.] Spenser.

A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.

To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis." Milton.

desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense. Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting. Sprat.