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Bereave :: Bereave (v. t.) To take away from.

Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.

Unbereaven :: Unbereaven (a.) Unbereft.

Orbate :: Orbate (a.) Bereaved; fatherless; childless.

Reave :: Reave (v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic.

Bereave :: Bereave (v. t.) To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.

Deprive :: Deprive (v. t.) To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of..

Mourning :: Mourning (a.) Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like..

Orphan :: Orphan (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living..

Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.

Stepchild :: Stepchild (n.) A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.

Orphan :: Orphan (a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent..

Bereaver :: Bereaver (n.) One who bereaves.

Orbation :: Orbation (n.) The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement..

Bereavement :: Bereavement (n.) The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death..

Widow :: Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband..

Disconsolate :: Disconsolate (v. t.) Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent..

Viduation :: Viduation (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.

Unchild :: Unchild (v. t.) To bereave of children; to make childless.

Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

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