verb
- Put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm.
- usage: "This rule clearly disadvantages me"
- synonyms: disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour
adjective
- Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences.
- usage: "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law"
- synonyms: deprived
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