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deprivation
 
Noun deprivation has 3 senses
  1. privation, want, deprivation - a state of extreme poverty
    --1 is a kind of poverty, poorness, impoverishment
    Derived forms: verb deprive1, verb deprive3
  2. loss, deprivation - the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation"
    --2 is a kind of disadvantage
  3. privation, deprivation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
    --3 is a kind of social control
    --3 has particulars:
     pauperization, pauperisation, impoverishment; starvation, starving
    Derived forms: verb deprive1, verb deprive2, verb deprive3
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