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deprivileged

deprivileged is the simple past and past participle of deprivilege.

Meaning of deprivilege

Verb

deprivilege (third-person singular simple present deprivileges, present participle deprivileging, simple past and past participle deprivileged)

  1. (transitive) To strip of privilege.
    • If literacy deprivileges the orality of language, literacy in English, in this context, deprivileges not only Jamaican but the orthography that revalorises the language as autonomous system.1995, Carolyn Cooper, Noises in the Blood, page 13

Questions about deprivileged

What is deprivileged the simple past and past participle of?
Deprivileged is the simple past and past participle of deprivilege.

Words near deprivileged in the dictionary

  1. deprivements
  2. depriver
  3. deprivers
  4. deprives
  5. deprivilege
  6. deprivileged
  7. deprivileges
  8. deprivileging
  9. depriving
  10. deproblematization
  11. deproblematize

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