deprive someone of your company

Examples of depriving

depriving

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Likewise, depriving people of vision of their hands may change the way movement history affects the current motor plan.
Moreover, inflation depressed incomes, depriving manufacturers of customers for their efforts and squeezing savings that might have fostered capital growth.
The confident songbird shows off by "deliberately depriving itself of information," ceding priority to the left hemisphere in the process.
Finally, our choice of comparison group meant that we could not compare the outcome of children who left depriving institutions with those who remained there.
A few individuals with access to capital strategically capture all the available groundwater, depriving the others.
Again, other research was consistent in showing the generally poor outcome for children who continue to be reared in depriving institutions.
Because they have a strong instinct to seek such interactions and relationships, depriving them of the opportunity to gratify this instinct harms these animals.
Why is depriving one of that which he possesses a real hurt while frustrating someone's expectations is not?
The main syntactic effect of deriving itextraposition this way is that of depriving the embedded clause of its subject position.
We achieved quiescence by depriving cells in culture of needed nutrients.
The religious law legalizes the use of cunning in trading, but forbids depriving people of their property illegally.
One utilises acousmatic listening to experience this work, thus depriving the sound sources of any potential culturally defined meaning.
I have, after all, been instrumental in depriving him of his ultimate goal.
By depriving them of their sexuality they were made submissive and their energies were directed towards certain roles in society and their fertility was controlled.
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