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suffer privation

VERB

need

Synonyms

STRONGEST

call for demand desire lack require

STRONG

claim covet crave exact hanker hunger long lust miss necessitate pine thirst wish yearn

WEAK

be deficient be deprived be down and out be hard up be in need of be in want be inadequate be needy be poor be short be without die for do without drive for feel a dearth of feel the necessity for feel the pinch go hungry have occasion for have occasion to have use for hurt for yen for

Antonyms

STRONGEST

have not want

STRONG

abjure despise dislike give hate

WEAK

do not want

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In this war it is trifling ... if one folk must suffer privation in this or that way.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is certain that at no time . . . will my mother suffer privation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their attitude was humane, courteous, sympathetic, agreeable, which qualities I firmly believe are supreme in those who know hardship, who suffer privation, who labour.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van

S: Nay! we are made to suffer privation.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

But it came at last in overflowing measure, as it almost invariably does to those who are willing to work and suffer privation and persevere to the end.

From Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life by Marden, Orison Swett

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