deprive
Verb
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Take away possessions from someone (synset 202319255)
"The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"is a type of: take - take into one's possessionsubtypes:
- disarm, unarm - take away the weapons from; render harmless
- expropriate - deprive of possessions
- clean - deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.
- dispossess - deprive of the possession of real estate
- clean out - deprive completely of money or goods
- unclothe - strip
- unsex - deprive of sex or sexual powers
- orphan - deprive of parents
- bereave - deprive through death
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Keep from having, keeping, or obtaining (synset 202318230)
subtypes:
- ablactate, wean - gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk
- famish, starve - deprive of food
- starve - deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
- tongue-tie - deprive of speech
- dock - deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
- bilk - evade payment to
- disinherit, disown - prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
- impoverish - make poor
- disenfranchise, disfranchise - deprive of voting rights
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Take away (synset 200172745)
subtypes: disestablish - deprive (an established church) of its statussame as: impoverish
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