Panis are cattle thieves who seek to deprive Aryans of them. It would deprive the partisans of supplies and recruits and simultaneously raise antipathy towards them. Dante defined envy as "a desire to deprive other men of theirs". Otherwise the breakwater may deprive downstream beaches of sand and accelerate erosion there. It can also mean to deprive anything of vigour or effectiveness. If we deprive ourselves of a stimulus, the value of that reinforcement increases. The governing Liberals repeatedly attempted to deprive Diefenbaker of his parliamentary seat. It would deprive the person of his or her own subjectivity and creativity. After devastating its countryside to deprive it of any resource, he encircled it. Charteris saw this as a ploy to deprive him of his royalties, and sued RKO. At certain times wars might also deprive significant numbers of families of a parent. It is considered haram for a father to deprive his children of an inheritance. If successful, the lawsuit could deprive Durst of most or all of his inherited fortune. Did the absence of forests in the Netherlands deprive the Jews of hiding places? The isolation can deprive the child of normal social skills.