bereft
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, educational
VERB + BEREFT
burden
BEREFT + NOUN
implications, june, months, parents
PREP.
in
ADV.
utterly
Definitions
adj
Pained by the loss of someone.
I was utterly bereft in the months following my wife's death.
[Oscar] Pistorius's punishment for killing her [Reeva Steenkamp] that night is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry.
Deprived of, stripped of, robbed of.
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; […]
This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
Lacking, devoid of.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6I was utterly bereft in the months following my wife's death.
Wiktionary[Oscar] Pistorius's punishment for killing her [Reeva Steenkamp] that night is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry.
WiktionaryAnd 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 smi
WiktionaryHe was bereft of all hope.
Tatoeba · #288875She was bereft of all hope.
Tatoeba · #309912Men who were bereft of reason conducted the war.
Tatoeba · #325342