DEPRIVATION

• (noun) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

  "nutritional privation", "deprivation of civil rights"

  synonyms : privation

  The prisoners faced privation from their captors, and many of them starved to death. -added by naila_inlas

• (noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something

  "his loss of credibility led to his resignation", "losing him is no great deprivation"

  synonyms : loss

• (noun) a state of extreme poverty

  synonyms : neediness , privation , want

  Privation had caused the man’s bones to stick out prominently in his frail body. -added by naila_inlas

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