depriver

One who strips

A depriver is someone or something that takes away or withholds what another possesses or needs.

The word is rare, appearing mostly in legal or formal contexts: The state as depriver of liberty must justify its actions.

More commonly, English uses phrases like "one who deprives" rather than this agent noun.

privation

scarcity

Insufficiency of something needed

want · need · starvation · famine · impoverishment · starver · exploiter · neglector · withholder · hoarder

denial

refusal

Act of declining

prohibition · withholding · blocking · obstruction · restriction · barring · forbidding · exclusion · prevention · shutout

loss

grief

Intense sorrow from loss

displacement · bereft · mourning · theft · robbery · plunder · seizure · confiscation · expropriation · stripping

Opposites
giving versus taking away

deprivergiver

One who bestows

provider · bestower · donor · grantor · benefactor

enabling versus restricting

depriverenabler

One who facilitates harmful behavior

empowerer · facilitator · liberator · sustainer · nourisher

Phrases
Family

deprive, deprived, deprivation, deprives, depriving, deprival, deprivations

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G