depriving
v.v. taking something away from someone that they need or want. It often describes not letting someone have enough of something important, like sleep or food.
v. preventing a person or thing from possessing or enjoying something; removing or withholding a necessity. Present participle of 'deprive' used to describe the act of withholding.
Working late every night is depriving him of sleep.
The new policy is effectively depriving local families of access to the community center during the weekends.
By depriving the soil of essential nutrients through intensive farming, the land eventually becomes unable to support even the hardiest of crops without significant chemical intervention.
Transitive; almost always takes the preposition 'of' before the thing being withheld.
depriving them from their rightsdepriving them of their rightsThe verb 'deprive' collocations with 'of', not 'from'.