Usually means: To deprive through death; mourn.
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  1. bereave: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bereave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bereave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bereave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bereave: Vocabulary.com
  6. bereave: Wordnik
  7. bereave: Wiktionary
  8. bereave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bereave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bereave: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bereave, bereave: Dictionary.com
  12. bereave: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Bereave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bereave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bereave: Rhymezone
  16. Bereave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bereave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. bereave: Free Dictionary
  19. bereave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bereave: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. bereave: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bereave: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bereave)

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

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