depriving
- 1Present participle of deprive.
Depriving prisoners of natural light was once a common form of punishment.
Critics accused the policy of depriving rural families of basic medical care.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. As a verb it appears in progressive tenses (the drought is depriving farmers of water), and as a noun it heads a phrase (depriving prisoners of light was common). Either way it keeps the base verb's frame: first whom you deprive, then of what. Without the of, a church sense appears. Depriving a clergyman means removing him from office, with the person as the only object.
depriving 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 → depriving: drop the e, add -ing
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