Definition of bereave

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Bereave (v. t.) To take away.

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Unbereaven :: Unbereaven (a.) Unbereft.
Stepchild :: Stepchild (n.) A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
Viduation :: Viduation (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.
Widow :: Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband..
Unchild :: Unchild (v. t.) To bereave of children; to make childless.
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..
Orbation :: Orbation (n.) The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement..
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..
Bereave :: Bereave (v. t.) To take away.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
Bereaver :: Bereaver (n.) One who bereaves.
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.
Bereaved :: Bereaved (imp. & p. p.) of Bereav.
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark..
Bereft :: Bereft () imp. & p. p. of Bereave.
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.
Bereave :: Bereave (v. t.) To take away from.
Bereave :: Bereave (v. t.) To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
Disconsolate :: Disconsolate (v. t.) Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent..
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