bereave
verb (used with object)
to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed byof ).
have bereft
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present perfectof bereave.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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They would have bereft me of my master!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
It angered her that he had had the power to provoke her so, and for the moment the encounter seemed to have bereft her of her last shreds of womanly reserve.
From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Time and grief, dear Hal, have bereft me of the glossy hues, the laughing graces, which your doting judgment once ascribed to me.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
Surely, dear nurse, the gods have bereft thee of thy sense; and verily, they can make the wisdom of the wise to be foolishness, and they can give wisdom to the simple.
From The Story of the Odyssey by Homer
For through you ye have bereft me of the fairest fellowship and the truest of knighthood that ever were seen together in any realm of the world.
From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous
