Definition of "deprival" []

• Deprivation. (noun)

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• "Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cockfighting, bullfighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence."
• "I might as well had a bed full of babies what with the sleep deprival I went through with those cats."
• "How else to assess the damage done by the unilateral invasion of Iraq, the deprival of due process for more than 600 people imprisoned at Guantanamo, the closing down of an Iraqi newspaper, the appalling mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners?"