The meaning of Bereaving

Bereaving – definition

verb
Be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death.
Usage examples:
She had recently been bereaved
Synonims:
Deprive Dispossess Rob Divest Strip Orphaned Widowed Grieving Sorrowful Lamenting Deprived Dispossessed

Bereaving translation into English

Bereaving: translate from English into Chinese

丧亲

Bereaving: translate from English into Dutch

Rouwen, Beroven

Bereaving: translate from English into French

Deuil, Priver, Déposséder, Ravir

Bereaving: translate from English into German

Trauer, Berauben, Rauben, Nehmen

Bereaving: translate from English into Hindi

शोकग्रस्त, वंचित करना, वियुक्त करना

Bereaving: translate from English into Italian

In lutto, Privare, Spogliare

Bereaving: translate from English into Korean

사별, 남기다, 잃게 하다, 앗아가다

Bereaving: translate from English into Russian

Скорбящий, Отнимать, Лишать, Обездоливать

Bereaving: translate from English into Spanish

Duelo, Privar, Despojar, Perder un ser querido, Estar afligido

Word origin

Old English berēafian (see be-, reave). The original sense was ‘deprive of’ in general.

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Bereaving – similar words

bereavements

bɪˈriːv.mənt

noun
The action or condition of being bereaved.
Usage examples:
There is no right way to experience bereavement

noun
The death of a close relation or friend
Usage examples:
She has recently suffered a bereavement.

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bereavement

noun
The action or condition of being bereaved.
Usage examples:
There is no right way to experience bereavement

noun
The death of a close relation or friend
Usage examples:
She has recently suffered a bereavement.

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bereaved

adjective
Deprived of a close relation or friend through their death.
Usage examples:
Bereaved families

verb
Be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death.
Usage examples:
She had recently been bereaved

adjective
Having had a close family member or friend die

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bereave

verb
Be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death.
Usage examples:
She had recently been bereaved

verb
To have a close relation or friend who has died
Usage examples:
Everyone who has been bereaved has to find his or her own way of coping.

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Bereaving synonims

deprive

verb
Prevent (a person or place) from having or using something.
Usage examples:
The city was deprived of its water supplies

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deprived

adjective
Suffering a severe and damaging lack of basic material and cultural benefits.
Usage examples:
The charity cares for destitute and deprived children

verb
Prevent (a person or place) from having or using something.
Usage examples:
The city was deprived of its water supplies

adjective
Lacking something that is needed to live the way most people live
Usage examples:
He took pictures in deprived areas of the city.

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dispossess

verb
Deprive (someone) of land, property, or other possessions.
Usage examples:
They were dispossessed of lands and properties during the reformation

verb
To force someone to give up the possession of a house, land, or other property
Usage examples:
Many people were dispossessed of their homes during the war.

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dispossessed

verb
Deprive (someone) of land, property, or other possessions.
Usage examples:
They were dispossessed of lands and properties during the reformation

adjective
Dispossessed people have had their property taken away from them.
Usage examples:
The poor and the dispossessed

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divest

verb
Deprive someone of (power, rights, or possessions).
Usage examples:
Men are unlikely to be divested of power without a struggle

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grieving

verb
Feel intense sorrow.
Usage examples:
She grieved for her father

noun
An overseer, manager, or bailiff on a farm.

adjective
Feeling very sad because someone has died
Usage examples:
Grieving relatives

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lamenting

verb
Express passionate grief about.
Usage examples:
He was lamenting the death of his infant daughter

noun
A passionate expression of grief or sorrow.
Usage examples:
His mother's night-long laments for his father

noun
A complaint.
Usage examples:
There were constant laments about the conditions of employment

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orphaned

verb
Make (a child) an orphan.
Usage examples:
John was orphaned at 12

noun
A child whose parents are dead.
Usage examples:
He was left an orphan as a small boy

noun
The first line of a paragraph set as the last line of a page or column, considered undesirable.

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rob

verb
Take property unlawfully from (a person or place) by force or threat of force.
Usage examples:
He tried, with three others, to rob a bank

verb
Take

verb
To take money or property from a person or place illegally
Usage examples:
Two men robbed the store last night., elderly people should not be robbed of their dignity.

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sorrowful

adjective
Feeling or showing grief.
Usage examples:
She looked at him with sorrowful eyes

adjective
Very sad
Usage examples:
With a sorrowful sigh she folded the letter and put it away.

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strip

verb
Remove all coverings from.
Usage examples:
They stripped the bed

noun
An act of undressing, especially in a striptease.
Usage examples:
She got drunk and did a strip on top of the piano

noun
A long, narrow piece of cloth, paper, plastic, or some other material.
Usage examples:
A strip of linen

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widowed

verb
Become a widow or widower; lose one's spouse through death.
Usage examples:
He was recently widowed

adjective
Having lost one's spouse by death and not married again.
Usage examples:
Her widowed mother

adjective
Having lost a husband or wife through death
Usage examples:
My widowed uncle lives upstairs.

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