The word 剥夺 is formed through the semantic combination of its two constituent characters: 剥, which originally means to peel, strip, or remove an outer layer (as in stripping bark from a tree), and 夺, which means to seize, take by force, or wrest away. Conceptually, they merge to create a single, intensified meaning where 剥 provides the imagery of a methodical, layer-by-layer removal, and 夺 injects the sense of an aggressive, forcible act. The compound thus crystallizes into the abstract notion of "to deprive", a forceful stripping away of rights, titles, possessions, or attributes, where the whole meaning is more nuanced than the simple sum of its parts.