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lack of basic things needed to live in a satisfactory manner- The blockade is causing widespread privation.
privation = lack of basic things needed to live in a satisfactory manner
- She grew up in a world of stillbirths and privation.
- She is ill because of the terrible privations she suffered while held prisoner.
- They had the hard, winnowed look of men who've spent much of their life outdoors, suffering privation.Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
- These tales speak of women who were trained in the art of war from childhood—in the use of weapons, and how to cope with physical privation.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- "Dear, I think the privations of your time on this island may have affected you in some way—" His Excellency began.Terry Pratchett -- Nation
- Despite the privations of those weeks and months, our plan for our daughters gave us hope and we tried to remember life's goodness with each passing day.Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- She is unused to such privations as these, and she has yet to reconcile herself to them.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- He compromised all the rest of his life, risked signing a note without even knowing whether he could meet it; and, frightened by the trouble yet to come, by the black misery that was about to fall upon him, by the prospect of all the physical privations and moral tortures that he was to suffer, he went to get the new necklace, laying upon the jeweler's counter thirty-six thousand francs.Guy de Maupassant -- The Diamond Necklace
- He had been led to the murder through his shallow and cowardly nature, exasperated moreover by privation and failure.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- I understood their impulses, the long years' privation and hurt out of which they had come to Communism.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- All other privations my men can endure except lack of water and lack of salt.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- As to anyone who has not endured privation having any notion of the matter, it is simply absurd.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with.Jane Austen -- Persuasion
- I know that it will involve many privations and inconveniences.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- As he went up the stairs, the man's face, pale with exhaustion and privation, but smiling, hovered before his eyes.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- She apparently was about seventy years of age and was bent almost double with the weight of many years of toil, and trouble, and privation.Jim Murphy -- The Great Fire
- Had she done everything in her power to lighten Godfrey's privation?George Eliot -- Silas Marner
- I look upon our life in hiding as an interesting adventure, full of danger and romance, and every privation as an amusing addition to my diary.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- As generally happens, Pierre did not feel the full effects of the physical privation and strain he had suffered as prisoner until after they were over.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
privation = lack of basic things needed to live in a satisfactory manner
privations = things that are lacking which are needed to live in a satisfactory manner
privation = lack of basic things needed to live in a satisfactory manner
privation = lack of basic things needed to live in a satisfactory manner
privations = things that are lacking which are needed to live in a satisfactory manner
privations = things that are lacking which are needed to live in a satisfactory manner
privations = things that are lacking which are needed to live in a satisfactory manner
privations = things that are lacking which are needed to live in a satisfactory manner
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