deprives
Saydi-PRYVZ/dɪˈpɹaɪvz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of deprive.
Chronic insomnia deprives the brain of restorative sleep.
The drought deprives the valley of the water its crops depend on.
Note
A verb built around of: first the one who loses, then of and what is lost, as when a drought deprives a valley of water. This form goes with a singular subject in the present, while plural and first- or second-person subjects take plain deprive. Two narrower uses sit beside it: a clergyman can be deprived, meaning removed from office, and the verb can simply mean bereave.
deprives is a form of deprive
deprive, verb: To take something away from someone and keep it from them, or to deny someone something. Full entry
- Spelling
- deprive → deprives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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