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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..

Penury :: Penury (n.) Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

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

Wean :: Wean (a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment..

Privation :: Privation (n.) The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation..

Privative :: Privative (a.) Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less..

Mortling :: Mortling (n.) An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling..

Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity..

Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity..

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

Maim :: Maim (v.) The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.

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

Famish :: Famish (v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

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

Exauthoration :: Exauthoration (n.) Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration.

Amission :: Amission (n.) Deprivation; loss.

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

Blind :: Blind (a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight..

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

Disability :: Disability (n.) State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like..

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