Associations to the word «Bereave»

Wiktionary

BEREAVE, verb. (transitive) To deprive by or as if by violence; rob; strip.
BEREAVE, verb. (transitive) To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.
BEREAVE, verb. (transitive) To deprive of power; prevent.
BEREAVE, verb. (transitive) To take away someone or something important or close; deprive.
BEREAVE, verb. (intransitive) (rare) To destroy life; cut off.

Dictionary definition

BEREAVE, verb. Deprive through death.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope