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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

... ever. There stood the wheel she had been turning; there hung the untwisted hanks of yarn, her morning task; and there they remained week after week, and month after month, untouched,—a melancholy memorial to the hearts of the bereaved parents of their beloved. ...

— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill

... bereaved partner warmly. 'Nobody could have any earthly objection to your behaviour. It was absolute carelessness. I should have thought that one might have expected one's partner at a club ...

— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse

... briefly told of the rash resolution, the unsettled life, the neglect of the father's wishes, the grievous remorse, the broken health, and restless aimless wanderings, ending at last in loving tendance of the bereaved rival. It had been a life never wanting in generosity or benevolence, yet falling far short of what it might have been—a gallant voyage made by a wreck—and yet the injury had been less from the disappointment than from the manner of bearing it. ...

— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge

... our fortnight's voyage. There was a general dive among the passengers in quest of berths and luggage, while a popping of corks in the saloon proved that more than one bereaved traveller was adopting artificial means for drowning the pangs of separation. I glanced round the deck and took a running inventory of my compagnons de voyage. They presented the usual types met with upon these occasions. There was no striking face among them. I speak as a connoisseur, ...

— The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... occasion, as she was about to turn back, there came to her ear the cry of an infant. Like a tigress robbed of her young, and with blazing eyes, the bereaved woman sprang in the direction of the sound, and in another instant her child, alive and well, was clasped to her bosom. He had been hidden beneath the low-spreading branches of a small cedar, and she snatched ...

— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore

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