Bereft Definition

bĭ-rĕft
adjective
Deprived of something.
They are bereft of their dignity.
American Heritage
Deprived, robbed, or devoid, as of life, hope, or happiness.
Webster's New World
Lacking something needed or expected.
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Bereaved.

Webster's New World
Suffering the death of a loved one; bereaved.
The bereft parents.
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verb

Bereave.

Webster's New World

Simple past tense and past participle of bereave.

Bereft of strength – powerless.
Bereft of gorm – in Yorkshire dialect – mindless one, idiot = gormless.
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Bereft Sentence Examples

  • She looked at the ground instead of Evelyn, feeling bereft once again.

  • The framework of this crown, bereft of its jewels, is in the possession of Lady Amherst of Hackney.

  • This is an act bereft of any moral justification.

  • Her brutal affections left Damon bereft, Stefan on his guard and Caroline Forbes became a changed woman when Katherine smothered her in her sleep while she had the blood of Damon in her veins.

  • Meanwhile, on his way thither to urge his plea in person, Abelard had broken down at the abbey of Cluny, and there, an utterly fallen man, with spirit of the humblest, and only not bereft of his intellectual force, he lingered but a few months before the approach of death.

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