bereft

[ bih-reft ]
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verb
  1. a simple past tense and past participle of bereave.

adjective
  1. deprived: They are bereft of their senses. He is bereft of all happiness.

Origin of bereft

1
First recorded in 1525–35; be- + reft

Words Nearby bereft

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How to use bereft in a sentence

  • She stood there as if Garnache's words had turned her into marble, bereft of speech through very rage.

    St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
  • But he now spoke to one bereft of sense—of any feeling save that of choking, withering, blighting agony.

    Confessions of a Thug | Philip Meadows Taylor
  • Oh, heart-broken at the sight of one son dead and the other dying, I was bereft of reasoning!

  • If he fell, the monument would find itself bereft of all its elegance, split as by some long and irreparable crack.

    The Nabob | Alphonse Daudet
  • When it could be kept from him no longer the truth was broken to him gently, but it almost bereft him of reason.

    They Looked and Loved | Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller

British Dictionary definitions for bereft

bereft

/ (bɪˈrɛft) /


adjective
  1. (usually foll by of) deprived; parted (from): bereft of hope

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