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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Wherever I went, he followed, crying out, 'They would have bereft me of my master and slain him who has been a benefactor to me and my family and friends!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
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
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
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
Unfortunately the baron wore his hair too short to be able to tear handfuls of it from his head, or he would have bereft himself of a handful or two.
From Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl by Edgar Jepson
