Verb
To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
Source: Webster's dictionarySometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. John Stuart Mill
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. Aristotle
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the czar won't see his face. Russian Proverb