If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it. They've been deprived of the fuel necessary to heat their homes. deprive of to prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need or should have
To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; with a remoter object, usually preceded by of
To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical
keep from having, keeping, or obtaining take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets