What is "bereaves"

Usage examples of "bereaves".

For certainly, sin bereaves a man of both goodness of nature and the goodness of grace.

What I really grieve over is your unhappy passion itself for gambling--a passion which bereaves me of part of your tender affection and obliges me to tell you such bitter truths as (God knows with what pain) I am now telling you.

What I really grieve over is your unhappy passion itself for gambling—a passion which bereaves me of part of your tender affection and obliges me to tell you such bitter truths as (God knows with what pain) I am now telling you.

In so far as he roves from these ends, a man bereaves himself of power, of auxiliaries.

Look, as the fair and fiery-pointed sun,Rushing from forth a cloud, bereaves our sight.