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deprived

/dih-prahyvd/US // dɪˈpraɪvd //UK // (dɪˈpraɪvd) //

被剥夺的,匮乏的,被剥夺了的,匮乏

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : marked by deprivation; lacking the necessities of life, as adequate food and shelter: a deprived childhood.

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Examples

  • Sullivan is rather busy these days and probably sleep deprived.

  • In the end, that might be the thing I love best about my secondary pantry, that it provides me endless pathways to quick and simple dishes that, ultimately, make me feel a little less deprived, a little less stuck.

  • Attitudes within the party were essentially unchanged; they just put new faces on an old, melanin-deprived product.

  • Deprived of amplification, he silently stripped down and collapsed onstage.

  • The Latvian government deprived him of citizenship for such activity.

  • Ebony had been 12 when her mother was suddenly deprived of her livelihood.

  • Ironically, the weather front deprived the passengers on Flight 630 of further Internet access.

  • A little boy aged two years and four months was deprived of a pencil from Thursday to Sunday for scribbling on the wall-paper.

  • From a sense of justice, I hastened to remunerate those who had been deprived of their coign of vantage, but, alas!

  • Freed from his presence, Black Sheep resolved that he should no longer be deprived of his allowance of pleasure-reading.

  • When he was good for a week, he drew good-conduct pay; and when he was bad, he was deprived of his good-conduct-stripe.

  • On a few previous occasions she had been completely deprived of any desire to finish her dinner.