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to have a close relation or friend who has died: Everyone who has been bereaved has to find his or her own way of coping. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Death and dying. all-cause mortality. antemortem. bite. bleed out. buy the farmidiom. coroner. death toll. ghost. have one foot in the graveidiom. macabre. perish.
The meaning of BEREAVE is to deprive of something —usually used with of. How to use bereave in a sentence.
BEREAVE meaning: 1. to have a close relation or friend who has died: 2. to have a close relation or friend who has…. Learn more.
The noun form of bereave is bereavement, referring to a period of mourning or or state of intense grief, especially following the death of a loved one. Bereavement can also be used more generally to mean the state of having lost something very dear.
The verb bereave is used when death takes someone away from you, depriving you of their presence. Overfeeding might bereave you of beloved goldfish. Think of bereave as an old-fashioned verb that's much more likely to show up in the adjective bereaved these days.
Definition of bereave verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. to deprive or rob; dispossess. now usually in the pp. bereft. she was bereft of hope or happiness. 2. to leave in a sad or lonely state, as by loss or death. 3. Obsolete. to take away by force. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Derived forms.
verb. To take a loved one from (a person), especially by death. American Heritage. To deprive or rob; dispossess. She was bereft of hope or happiness. Webster's New World. To take something valuable or necessary from (a person or thing). American Heritage. To leave in a sad or lonely state, as by loss or death. Webster's New World.
Bereaved is an adjective describing people in deep sorrow at the loss of a loved one. For some, being bereaved helps them leave the sadness or release themselves from it by experiencing it for awhile. From the Old English berēafian, meaning "deprive of," bereaved describes the loss you feel when someone you love dies.
1. To take a loved one from (a person), especially by death: "Cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved"(Alan Paton). 2. To take something valuable or necessary from (a person or thing): "He was subject to fits, which bereaved him ... of his senses"(David Hume).
