Word Meanings - OBTRUNCATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of a limb; to lop.

DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation.
DEPRIVER
One who, or that which, deprives.
DEPRIVE
1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath