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Deprived of a loved one
Answer for the clue "Deprived of a loved one ", 8 letters:
bereaved
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Word definitions for bereaved in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bereaved \be*reaved"\ (b[-e]*r[=e]v"), adj. mourning due to the death of a loved one. Syn: bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning(prenominal), sorrowing(prenominal).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN family ▪ I promise you it isn't the only time that warm relationships have built up between reporters and bereaved families . ▪ To a very recently bereaved family who are struggling with a multiplicity of emotions ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope" [syn: bereft , grief-stricken , grieving , mourning(a) , sorrowing(a) ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
having suffered the death of a loved one v (en-past of: bereave )
Usage examples of bereaved.
By the Day-star of the World, my bereaved and longing heart is afire with a grief that is beyond my description.
Yet, during all this time and under all conditions these bereaved and oppressed ones, with faces set towards His luminous Threshold, held fast to the cord of patience and resignation, engaged themselves in offering fervent prayers and supplications and committed all their affairs to the care of the Blessed Beauty.
And although in a joyless world, the love and unity of the friends in Yonkers imparted the utmost joy to this bereaved family.
As often as the tale was embellished with new incidents or enforced by new testimony, the hearer grew pale, his breath was stifled by inquietudes, his blood was chilled, and his stomach was bereaved of its usual energies.
His bereaved congregation immediately began pulling candidates on and off, like new boots, on trial.
Through these trances of mine I have been privileged to put many bereaved ones in communication with their dear departed spirits.
I, the daughter of the man who had done so much to put these poor lonely spirits into the Beyond, should be made their sole channel of reunion with their bereaved and sorrowing adorers?
Quimbleton, poor bereaved fellow, would sit by me in the dusk and revel with the spirit of his dear comrade.
Someone who would give them a false name, raise the kid, and run with their money, and leave the bereaved parents to clean up the mess and explain things to the police.
I should have, I was still trying to be nice to the poor bereaved crazy woman.
They never released names of the downed officers to the media until all the families had been contacted, better for the bereaved, but hell on all the other families with police officers out and about tonight.
In the hut next door I did find the bereaved mosaicist, Philocles Junior.
He should clear the historical record by apologizing to his subjects who had suffered, died, or been bereaved in a war waged in his name.
She hoped Barth would get more cooperation from the bereaved family than she might.
In the house, vainly rich and foolishly unfit for them, the bereaved family whom the Marches had just left lingered together, and tried to get strength to part for the night.