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Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.

Apnoea :: Apnoea (n.) Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

Orbation :: Orbation (n.) The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement..

Narcosis :: Narcosis (n.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic..

Mutilation :: Mutilation (n.) The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part..

Loss :: Loss (v. t.) The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing..

Thirst :: Thirst (n.) A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation..

Taint :: Taint (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.

Exsanguinity :: Exsanguinity (n.) Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora.

Degradement :: Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.

Out :: Out (a.) Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into, a state of want, loss, or deprivation; -- used of office, business, property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest..

Death :: Death (v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory..

Spoliation :: Spoliation (v. t.) The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.

Compensation :: Compensation (n.) That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense..

Inebriation :: Inebriation (n.) The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success..

Privation :: Privation (n.) The condition of being absent; absence; negation.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1..

Bereavement :: Bereavement (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death..

Un- :: Un- () An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-

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