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v. To leave desolate or alone, especially by death: "Cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved” ( Alan Paton).

v. Archaic To take (something valuable or necessary), typically by force.

v. To deprive by or as if by violence; rob; strip.

v. To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.

v. To deprive of power; prevent.

v. To take away someone or something important or close; deprive.

v. To destroy life; cut off.

v. To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.

v. To take away from.

v. To take away.

To deprive by or as if by violence; rob; strip: with of before the thing taken away.

[It is sometimes used without of, more especially in the passive, the subject of the verb being either the person deprived or the thing taken away.

To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.

To deprive of power; prevent.

To destroy life; cut off.

v. deprive through death

""bereave" in Eze 36: 13; but "cause to fall" or "stumble," in the Hebrew text or Chetib, being the more difficult reading, is the one least likely to come from a corrector; also, it forms a good transition to the next subject, namely, the moral cause of the people's calamities, namely, their falls, or stumblings through sin."

bereaved    bereaves    bereaving    bereft   

divest    deprive    strip   

reave   

bereavement   

deprive    strip    orphan    widow   

Eve    Kleve    Neave    Rajiv    Steve    achieve    aggrieve    aleve    believe    cleave   

destitute    unable    oblivious    defenceless    unsure    friendless    uninhabited    ashamed    unfitted    deaf