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privation
[ prahy-vey-shuhn ]
noun
- lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life:
His life of privation began to affect his health.
Synonyms: , , ,
- an instance of this.
- the act of depriving.
- the state of being deprived.
privation
/ ±è°ù²¹ÉªËˆ±¹±ðɪʃə²Ô /
noun
- loss or lack of the necessities of life, such as food and shelter
- hardship resulting from this
- the state of being deprived
- obsolete.logic the absence from an object of what ordinarily or naturally belongs to such objects
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of privation1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of privation1
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Example Sentences
A week earlier, Israelis were horrified and enraged by the frail, near-skeletal condition of three freed Israeli men, and by emerging testimony that hostages had suffered privation and torture under their militant captors.
Rather, it was because he came to realize he wasn’t empathetic enough to class differences and the privations of others.
One senior nurse - in a message heard by the BBC - speaks in an exhausted voice of relentless privations allegedly imposed by the Israelis besieging Jabalia.
Saunders and Gamble dig into the domestic privations of poverty — the lack of food and heat, the shame of wearing the same old clothes every day, the constant worry about what’s next.
International humanitarian officials said the military operation had halted the flow of aid from Egypt into Gaza, exacerbating extreme hunger and privation in the besieged territory.
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