Deprive vs Robbed - What's the difference?
deprive | robbed |
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
(rob)
(lb) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
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(lb) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
To deprive (of).
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To burgle.
*2008 , National Public Radio, All Things Considered , Sept 4, 2008
*:Her house was robbed .
(lb) To commit robbery.
(lb) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
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As verbs the difference between deprive and robbed
is that deprive is while robbed is (rob).deprive
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Verb
(depriv)- "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)Synonyms
* impoverishAntonyms
* enrichrobbed
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(head)Anagrams
*rob
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Etymology 1
(etyl) robben, from (etyl) (compare English reave). More at (l).Verb
(robb)Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos, passage=Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break.}}