DEPRIVED

deprived, disadvantaged

(adjective) marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences; “a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity”; “boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

deprived (comparative more deprived, superlative most deprived)

Subject to deprivation; poor.

Verb

deprived

past participle of deprive

Source: Wiktionary


DEPRIVE

De*prive", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deprived; p. pr. & vb. n. Depriving.] Etym: [LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver. See Private.]

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

2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath deprived her of wisdom. Job xxxix. 17. It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. Macaulay.

3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical. A miniser deprived for inconformity. Bacon.

Syn.

– To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SUBDUCTION

(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate


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