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verb

Bereave v. t. (past & past part. bereaved, bereft; pres. part. bereaving)

To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; with of before the person or thing taken away. "Madam, you have bereft me of all words." "Bereft of him who taught me how to sing."

To take away from. (Obs.) "All your interest in those territories Is utterly bereft you; all is lost."

To take away. (Obs.) "Shall move you to bereave my life." Note: The imp. and past pple. form bereaved is not used in reference to immaterial objects. We say bereaved or bereft by death of a relative, bereft of hope and strength.

Synonyms: To dispossess; to divest.

adjective

bereaved adj. Mourning due to the death of a loved one.

Synonyms: bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning(prenominal), sorrowing(prenominal).

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Etymology of 'Bereaved'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bereaved" Quotes from Famous Books

... deepening the yellow atmosphere, and the crowd was now steadily flowing in one direction. The bereaved creature went with the stream, glad to be surrounded and unseen, till it struck her, at last, that she was moving homeward. She stopped with a pang of grief, turned, and met all those people to whom the fireside ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... mourners are sometimes hired—for one anna a Hindu can get a professional mourner to wail heart-breakingly at the funeral of his least-loved mother-in-law—but somehow the relatives of the dead themselves seem to show little evidence of grief. "But where are the bereaved families?" I asked a Hindu priest as we looked at a few groups of men and woman sitting and talking around the fires from whence came the gruesome odor of burning human flesh. "Oh, those are the families you see there," he replied. And sure enough they were—I suppose—although I had thought ...

— Where Half The World Is Waking Up • Clarence Poe

... tall woman of forty, her ample form, her wide bosom, the falling folds of her black dress, her loosely girdled waist, suggesting, with the cloistral analogies, the mournful benignity of a bereaved Madonna. Seen as she stood there, leaning her head to watch her son's approach, she was an almost intimidating presence, black, still, and stately. But when the door opened and the young man came in, when, not moving to meet him, she turned her head with a slight smile of welcome, ...

— Amabel Channice • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... The bereaved father and daughter were wild with grief, and they abandoned themselves to their bitter sorrow. They felt it to be impossible to take leave of the loved woman who till now had filled their whole lives and ...

— Japanese Fairy Tales • Yei Theodora Ozaki

... is too pretty to be in this new country without a protector." They also recalled how Perry McCoon's launch had brought supplies up the river for the Second Relief to take over the mountains; and how finally, he himself had carried to the bereaved daughter the last ...

— The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate • Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

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