deprive
verb (used with object)
to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons).
am depriving
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present progressiveof deprive (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am depriving your future bride of the pleasure of furnishing her own house, and that's what all brides like better than anything.
From Viola Gwyn by George Barr McCutcheon
Since you are so afraid that by taking this scholarship I am depriving someone else of an education, I know a way out.
From Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
In five minutes I shall be in the saddle, unless I am depriving any worthy gentleman here of the honour of the adventure, which I wouldn't do for the world.'
From Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens
Now I shan't feel I am depriving the other people!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 by Various
Do not tell your husband, Persephone, or he will complain to Zeus that I am depriving him of his population.
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Edmund Gosse
