depriving
Denying someone something
Depriving is taking something away from someone or denying them access to it.
The word implies withholding something needed or deserved: depriving children of proper nutrition, depriving citizens of their rights.
Self-deprivation suggests voluntary abstention: She's been depriving herself of sleep to finish the project.
Lack of something needed
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- dearthAcute shortage of something
inadequacy · absence · want · need · deficit · loss · void · shortfall
Refusing to acknowledge
- refusingDeclining to accept
- restrictingPlacing limits upon
- blockingImpeding forward progress
- strippingRemoving outer layers
dispossessing · robbing · divesting · bereaving · cutting off · excluding · barring · prohibiting
Need for nourishment
- famineSevere food shortage
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
fasting · emaciation · wasting · famished · underfed · malnourished · food insecurity · rationing
deficiency
Lack of something needed
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
dearth · inadequacy · absence · want · need · deficit · loss · void · shortfall · impoverishment
denying
Refusing to acknowledge
- refusingDeclining to accept
- restrictingPlacing limits upon
- blockingImpeding forward progress
stripping · dispossessing · robbing · divesting · bereaving · cutting off · excluding · barring · prohibiting · forbidding
hunger
Need for nourishment
- famineSevere food shortage
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
undernourishment · fasting · emaciation · wasting · famished · underfed · malnourished · food insecurity · rationing · subsistence
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
aching · desiring · hungering · missing · needing · wishing · thirsting · denied
deprivinggiving
Transferring to another
providing · granting · bestowing · endowing · conferring
deprivingenriching
Adding worth or nutrients
filling · satiating · satisfying · nourishing · replenishing
deprivinggranting
Giving formally or officially
allowing · permitting · entitling · empowering · enabling
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