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Deprive vs Befight - What's the difference?

deprive | befight |

As verbs the difference between deprive and befight

is that deprive is while befight is (obsolete) to deprive of by fighting.

deprive

English

Verb

(depriv)
  • To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.
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  • * 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
    • "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
    If we had been deprived' of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be ' deprived of philosophy.

    Derived terms

    * depriver (agent noun)

    Related terms

    * deprivation * private * privation * privy

    Synonyms

    * impoverish

    Antonyms

    * enrich

    befight

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To deprive of by fighting.
  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To fight against; contend; do battle with.