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Withhold vs Deprive - What's the difference?

withhold | deprive |

As verbs the difference between withhold and deprive

is that withhold is to keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner while deprive is .

withhold

English

Verb

  • To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.
  • To keep (information, etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
  • To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.

    • Synonyms

    * retain

    Derived terms

    * overwithhold * underwithhold

    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