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deprivileges

deprivileges is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 deprivileges

What is deprivileges the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Deprivileges is the third-person singular simple present indicative of deprivilege.

Words near deprivileges in the dictionary

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

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