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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bereft
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Feeling oddly bereft and desolate, besieged by Dolly's incessant chatter, Luce was pleased to get back to the hotel.
▪ For the destitute, the impoverished, the sick, the hunted and the bereft, life was intolerably precarious.
▪ How haggard and bereft of hope they looked!
▪ Now bereft of roofs and windows, its sightless eyes command a superb view of the Swale far below.
▪ She wanted to see him so badly that she felt physically bereft.
▪ So many shop-window dummies, suddenly bereft of all life.
▪ Thus was the contrary proved: the party was bereft of new ideas altogether.
▪ Was it too as bereft as she now was?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bereft

Bereft \Be*reft"\ (b[-e]*r[e^]ft"), imp. & p. p. of Bereave.

Bereft

Bereave \Be*reave"\ (b[-e]*r[=e]v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bereaved (b[-e]*r[=e]vd"), Bereft (b[-e]*r[e^]ft"); p. pr. & vb. n. Bereaving.] [OE. bireven, AS. bere['a]fian. See Be-, and Reave.]

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

    Madam, you have bereft me of all words.
    --Shak.

    Bereft of him who taught me how to sing.
    --Tickell.

  2. To take away from. [Obs.]

    All your interest in those territories Is utterly bereft you; all is lost.
    --Shak.

  3. To take away. [Obs.]

    Shall move you to bereave my life.
    --Marlowe.

    Note: The imp. and past pple. form bereaved is not used in reference to immaterial objects. We say bereaved or bereft by death of a relative, bereft of hope and strength.

    Syn: To dispossess; to divest.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bereft

late 14c., past participle adjective from bereave (v.).

Wiktionary
bereft
  1. 1 (of a person) pained by the loss of someone 2 deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of v

  2. (en-pastbereave)

WordNet
bereft
  1. adj. unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love [syn: lovelorn, unbeloved]

  2. sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope" [syn: bereaved, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning(a), sorrowing(a)]

Wikipedia
Bereft (film)

Bereft is a 2004 television film written by Peter Ferland and directed by Tim Daly and J. Clark Mathis. Bereft is the first film Daly directed. It stars Vinessa Shaw, Michael C. Hall, Tim Blake Nelson, Marsha Mason, and Edward Herrmann. Set in Vermont, Bereft tells the story of a young widow haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.

Bereft

Bereft may refer to:

  • Bereft (film), 2004 American television film
  • Bereft (TV series)
  • Bereft (novel)
Bereft (novel)

Bereft is a 2010 novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley.

Usage examples of "bereft".

The French spread victorious across the land, and these Riflemen were bereft and frightened.

There had been a time when the company of such men had been his life and pleasure, but now, because he was an officer, he was bereft of such companionship.

In the empty space where it had been, the lit He calico cat sat alone, looking bereft and forsaken.

Now she found it lacking, an oddly empty, circumscribed happiness bound up in self-indulgence and personal gratification, bereft of interest in or concern for others, ultimately puzzling and somehow sad.

Exhausted, sullen, and bereft for the moment of any other plan, the conjurer and the bird continued their journey.

Together they had formed an odd company, bereft of any real knowledge of their past, forced to begin life anew in a world about which they knew almost nothing.

The rest, bereft of the promised protection of the Gorse and its magic, had no interest in a fight.

Christian duty to visit with those who are lonely and bereft in their time of need.

He sputtered threats and cursed steadily as Plover and I rounded up all the shoppers, ordered them to abandon their carts in mid-aisle, and sent them away bereft of bargains.

I tried to assign Buzz a motive as I drove down the road to his house, but I was as bereft of inspiration as I was of cool air from the pisspoor air conditioner.

He wondered who it was, wondered why it travelled alone, bereft of clan and kin.

Dishonoured by its own cowardice, bereft of dignity, a mother no longer.

The encampment was a shambles, bereft of organization, sloppily prepared and seriously undermanned.

Mourning among the Rhivi and Barghast, bereft voices rising into the darkness.

An army sworn to a god bereft of its power was, as far as Itkovian was concerned, no different from any other band of mercenaries: a collection of misfits and a scattering of professional soldiers.