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- Dictionarybereavement/bɪˈriːvm(ə)nt/
noun
- 1. the fact or condition of being bereaved: "there is no right way to experience bereavement" Similar
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: the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone. Examples of bereavement in a Sentence. The following May, my wife and I flew to London for my father's funeral.
noun [ C or U ] uk / bɪˈriːv.mənt / us / bɪˈriːv.mənt / Add to word list. the death of a close relation or friend: She has recently suffered a bereavement. Compare. mourning. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Remembering people who have died. bereaved. dear departed. Devon. epitaph. grief. grieve. in memory of someone idiom. lamented.
Bereavement is a period of mourning or or state of intense grief, especially following the death of a loved one. Bereavement is often a process that includes going through several stages of grief. Bereavement can also be used more generally to mean the state of having lost something very dear.
noun [ C or U ] us / bɪˈriːv.mənt / uk / bɪˈriːv.mənt / Add to word list. the death of a close relation or friend: She has recently suffered a bereavement. Compare. mourning. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Remembering people who have died. bereaved. dear departed. Devon. epitaph. grief. grieve. in memory of someone idiom. lamented.
Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies. When their mother died, she did not share her brother's sense of bereavement. American English : bereavement / bɪˈrivmənt /
If you have ever mourned someone's passing, you know about bereavement — the period of sorrow that follows the death of a loved one. Bereavement comes from an Old English word that means “rob,” “deprive,” and “seize.”.
noun. /bɪˈriːvmənt/ [uncountable] the state of having lost a relative or close friend because they have died. the pain of an emotional crisis such as divorce or bereavement. a sense of bereavement. learning to cope with bereavement. bereavement counselling. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Take your English to the next level.
Bereavement definition: The state of being bereaved ; deprivation ; especially the loss of a relative by death. .
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).
BEREAVEMENT meaning: 1 : the state of being sad because a family member or friend has recently died; 2 : the death of a family member or friend.
