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BEREAVE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they bereave ... he / she / it bereaves
Past participle: bereaved /bereft
-ing form: bereaving
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deprive through death
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "bereave" is one way to...):
deprive; divest; strip (take away possessions from someone)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Derivation:
bereavement (state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one)
