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Bereft

//bəˈɹɛft// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pained by the loss of someone. not-comparable

    "I was utterly bereft in the months following my wife's death."

  2. 2
    Deprived of, stripped of, robbed of. not-comparable

    "And there I strove, and there I clove through the drift of icy streams; / And there I fought, and there I sought for the pay-streak of my dreams. // So twenty years, with their hopes and fears and smiles and tears and such, / Went by and left me long bereft of hope of the Midas touch; […]"

  3. 3
    Lacking, devoid of. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    sorrowful through loss or deprivation wordnet
  2. 2
    unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of bereave form-of, participle, past

    "bereft of strength"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English bireft, v. Middle English bireven. Synchronically a form of bereaved; compare leave and left.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bireft, v. Middle English bireven. Synchronically a form of bereaved; compare leave and left.

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