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| Main Entry: | deprive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep or take away something wanted, needed |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, denude, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, expropriate, hold back, lose, oust, rob, seize, skim, stiff, strip, wrest |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, bestow, confer, endow, give, indulge, offer, present, supply |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | frustrate, thwart |
| Synonyms: | baffle, check, defeat, deprive, foil, prevent |
| Main Entry: | constrain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | force; restrain |
| Synonyms: | ban, bar, bind, bottle up, bridle, chain, check, coerce, compel, confine, constrict, cork, curb, deny, deprive, disallow, drive, hold back, immure, impel, imprison, incarcerate, inhibit, intern, jail, make, necessitate, oblige, pressure, stifle, urge, withhold, concuss, cool off, hem in, hog-tie, hold down, hold in, keep lid on, pressurize, put half nelson on, shotgun |
| Antonyms: | free, release, let go |
| Main Entry: | deaden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, muffle, quiet |
| Synonyms: | abate, alleviate, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken, KO, anesthetize, etherize, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten |
| Antonyms: | animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | despoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, destroy |
| Synonyms: | denude, deprive, desecrate, desolate, devastate, devour, dispossess, divest, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, raid, rifle, rob, sack, spoil, strip, vandalize, waste, wreak havoc, wreck, depopulate, depredate, spoliate |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, improve |
| Main Entry: | disinherit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut off in will of bequeathal |
| Synonyms: | bereave, deprive, disown, dispossess, divest, evict, exclude, neglect, oust, repudiate, rob, cut off without a cent, disaffiliate, exheridate |
| Antonyms: | bequeath, give |
| Main Entry: | dismantle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take apart |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, bankrupt, bare, break up, decimate, demolish, denude, deprive, destroy, disassemble, dismember, dismount, disrobe, divest, fell, level, pull down, raze, ruin, strike, strip, subvert, take down, tear down, undo, wrack, wreck, break down, denudate, knock down, part out, take to pieces, unrig |
| Antonyms: | assemble, build, combine, construct, put together, raise |
| Main Entry: | disrobe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take off one's clothes |
| Synonyms: | bare, denude, deprive, dismantle, divest, doff, husk*, peel*, remove, shed, shuck*, strip, unbutton, uncover, undress, denudate, slip out of, take it off, unclothe |
| Antonyms: | clothe, put on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | divest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispossess; take off |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, denude, deprive, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, disrobe, ditch*, doff, dump, eighty-six*, lose, milk*, oust, plunder, remove, rob, seize, spoil, strip, uncover, undress, unload, denudate, take from, unclothe |
| Antonyms: | clothe, cover, invest, possess, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | do for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy |
| Synonyms: | defeat, deprive, finish, kill, ruin, shatter, slaughter, slay |
| Antonyms: | bear, create |
| Main Entry: | do out of |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat |
| Synonyms: | balk, bilk, con, deceive, deprive, steal, swindle, trick, beat out of |
| Main Entry: | enslave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make someone a servant |
| Synonyms: | bind, capture, chain, check, circumscribe, coerce, compel, confine, deprive, dominate, enclose, enthrall, fetter, hobble, hold, immure, imprison, incarcerate, indenture, jail, oppress, reduce, restrain, restrict, secure, shackle, subdue, subject, subjugate, suppress, tether, tie, yoke, disenfranchise, disfranchise, enchain, get hooks into, keep under thumb, put in irons, shut in |
| Antonyms: | allow, emancipate, free, liberate, let go |
| Main Entry: | forbid |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | outlaw, prohibit an action |
| Synonyms: | ban, block, cancel, censor, check, debar, deny, deprive, disallow, embargo, enjoin, exclude, forestall, freeze*, halt, hinder, hold up, impede, inhibit, interdict, nix*, obstruct, obviate, oppose, preclude, prevent, proscribe, restrain, restrict, rule out, shut down, shut out*, spike*, stop, stymie*, taboo*, veto, withhold, declare illegal, forfend, lock up, put the chill on, say no |
| Antonyms: | allow, approve, authorize, permit, sanction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expel, get rid of |
| Synonyms: | banish, bereave, bounce*, chase, depose, deprive, dethrone, discharge, disinherit, dislodge, displace, dispossess, divest, eject, evict, fire, kick out, lay off, lose, ostracize, pink slip*, relegate, remove, rob, sack, send packing*, throw out, topple, transport, turn out, unseat, boot out, bundle off, cast out, drive out, expulse, force out, give the 1-2-3, let go, pack off, show the door |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, retain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | strip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bare, uncover |
| Synonyms: | decorticate, denude, deprive, despoil, dismantle, displace, disrobe, divest, empty, expose, gut, hull, husk, lift, peel, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, remove, rob, scale, shave, shed, shuck, skin, spoil, take off, tear, undress, withdraw, excorticate, lay bare, slip out of, unclothe |
| Antonyms: | clothe, cover |
| Main Entry: | foreclose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exclude |
| Synonyms: | bar, deprive, preclude, prevent, rule out, shut out |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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