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

Unbereaven :: Unbereaven (a.) Unbereft.

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

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

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

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 take away from.

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

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

Bereaved :: Bereaved (imp. & p. p.) of Bereav.

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..

Bereft :: Bereft () imp. & p. p. of Bereave.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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