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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bereaved
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 this early attention to fees can seem mercenary.
▪ The shop-woman smiled at her and asked after the bereaved family.
▪ He longed to be reunited with his bereaved family.
▪ She documents the considerable difficulties involved for researchers in approaching bereaved families and countering the disapproval of many outside agencies.
▪ Keith Gault, whose father Samuel was killed, laid the wreath on behalf of the eight bereaved families.
▪ He said the public grief and that of the bereaved families has been enormous.
▪ Often a bereaved family will return to the bones of dead elephants many years later.
people
▪ When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support.
▪ It is therefore suggested that it may well be necessary to provide help for certain groups of bereaved people.
▪ What do bereaved people think of their efforts?
▪ It needs to be remembered that bereaved people stay at home.
▪ Those who work with bereaved people see mourning divided into four distinct stages.
▪ The loneliness that bereaved people feel can be intense.
person
▪ It is certainly the time when the bereaved person begins to think about forming new attachments in various ways.
▪ This in itself provides a complicated emotional scenario for the bereaved person to cope with.
▪ At some stage a bereaved person usually begins to feel that he or she must be very selfish indeed.
▪ This does not mean that when the particular anniversary comes around next time the bereaved person will not find the day difficult.
▪ It is hard enough, as we have discovered, for people to know how to behave as a bereaved person.
▪ So here the bereaved person meets the church in action.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bereaved family members are demanding more information about the plane crash.
▪ The bereaved mother stood by her son's grave.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, as to the bereaved, their words glowed with the grateful confidence that their own worlds were still intact.
▪ Begin by listening carefully to how the bereaved speak about their loss.
▪ Both were bereaved, and both were seasoned adventurers.
▪ The bereaved are dimly aware of these feelings, and are equally embarrassed about displaying tears.
▪ This in itself provides a complicated emotional scenario for the bereaved person to cope with.
▪ To a very recently bereaved family who are struggling with a multiplicity of emotions this early attention to fees can seem mercenary.
▪ When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support.
▪ When it comes to death, counselling the dying, or helping the bereaved, we Christians have become secularised.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bereaved

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).

Wiktionary
bereaved

  1. having suffered the death of a loved one v

  2. (en-past of: bereave)

WordNet
bereaved

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

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.