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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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"Bereaved" Quotes from Famous Books

... packed the poor sobbing little fellow off to England in charge of a trusty escort, and sternly made up his mind that the lad should not return till he was a man grown. It was only a few months after this that Jeanne Dubois became Mistress Willan Blaycke; so it seemed not improbable that the bereaved father's loneliness had had much to do with that ...

— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson

... passed, and Mark and Annaple were thinking that they ought to return to ordinary life, and leave the bereaved ones to endeavour to construct their life afresh under the dreadful wearing uncertainty of their darling's fate. Still they were detained by urgent entreaties from father and daughter, who both dreaded their departure as additional desolation, and as closing the door of hope. And certainly, even ...

— Nuttie's Father • Charlotte M. Yonge

... mystery is not solved, but the silence is broken. First we listen to the poet, then we listen to the same song sung in our own hearts,—the same, for it is God who has sung to him and who sings to us. And when the bereaved has found God, he has found light in his darkness, peace in his tempest, a ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various

... years; and then returned home, bringing with him a fair, fragile little creature, who remained with him scarce two years; leaving the little Gerald to comfort and console the bereaved man, and be a loving reminder of the gentle little dove, who had loved him so dearly, and then winged her flight above, to watch over and pray for the coming of her ...

— The Rector of St. Mark's • Mary J. Holmes

... the truly horrible position of being secretly or openly suspected of infidelity. Again, when a family has been limited to one or two children and these die, the parents may find themselves solitary and childless in old age; and mothers thus bereaved are often the victims of profound and lasting melancholy. The mother of a large family has her worries, many of them not due to her children, but to the social evils of our time: and yet she is less to be pitied than the woman who is losing her beauty after a fevered ...

— Birth Control • Halliday G. Sutherland

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