Privation: alternatives and connections

The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.

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The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

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The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

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The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.

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The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

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The act of starving, or the state of being starved.

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of Starve

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To take away; to put an end; to destroy.

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To take away; to put an end; to destroy.

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The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

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The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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