bereave
verb (used with object)
to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed byof ).
has bereaved
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present perfectof bereave (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The world makes great mistakes as to that which is and is not beneficial to those whom Death has bereaved of a companion.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Once a miss has bereaved me of all.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 by Various
It is not God but man who has bereaved us, and left us desolate.
From A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
The only chance for a bird-bachelor is to console some widow whom accident has bereaved of her mate.
From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe
Her poverty is not less than my own, and by marrying against the wishes of her kindred she has bereaved herself of all support but that of her husband.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
