bereave
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Half of our crew were locals, so we offered them to take time off to bereave should they choose to.
From Salon ● May 12, 2023
Yet, when discretion doth bereave The plaints that they should utter,Then thy discretion may perceive That silence is a suitor.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2012
Life after college can feel like a desperate and depressing limbo where recent grads bereave the loss of carefree times when they aren’t scouring Craigslist for employment.
From Washington Post
"Luther never intended to bereave the church of her mystery," says one Sammlung theologian.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despoil, de-spoil′, v.t. to spoil completely: to strip: to bereave: to rob.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
“It utterly bereaves me to pass on the news that I have been advised by my medical team here in the UK to cancel my upcoming USA book tour,” Moore wrote on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Queen Elizabeth II will be seated alone as she bereaves the death of her husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, at his funeral on Saturday.
From Fox News ● Apr. 16, 2021
Their shepherd now leaves them To howl and to roar— Of his presence bereaves them, To feed some young breeze On the violet odour, And to teach it on shore To rock the green trees.
From Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
In so far as he roves from these ends, a man bereaves himself of power, of auxiliaries.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
But still we yield thee to no stranger's care; No unknown foe our tender love bereaves; Thou goest the angels' hallow'd bliss to share, A Father thy exalted soul receives!
From Poems by Matilda Betham
A civic group and bereaved families filed a complaint accusing members of the Shinsegae Group, which operates Starbucks Korea, of defaming and insulting the victims and relatives.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Bush, who ran Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, was trusted by bereaved families but mistreated them on an "almost industrial scale", Paxton said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
A funeral director who failed to bury people and gave out wrong ashes has breached the trust of bereaved families "on an almost industrial scale", a court has heard.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Law firm Hodge Jones & Allen is representing more than 120 bereaved families at the inquiry.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
He knew that the congregation would rather not have the bereaved say a single thing.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
But warmer oceans are also often bereft of the high-energy prey these juvenile salmon need for rapid growth when they reach the saltwater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The death of a sibling leaves survivors twice bereft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The trend underscores a Wild West internet landscape that is largely bereft of guardrails as false narratives erode digital trust.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
"England just look like a team bereft of confidence at the minute," he told Rugby Union Weekly.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
I will not bow to such a one, last of a ragged house long bereft of lordship and dignity.’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Even those who are still alive are forced to spend parts of their existence inadvertently bereaving the death of a life they were promised.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
Culkin, 39, pressed that the death of Dakota – whose nickname was Cody – hit everyone in their family differently and they all were "torn up inside" while bereaving the accident.
From Fox News ● Oct. 6, 2021
Bereave, bereft or bereaved, bereaving, bereft or bereaved.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
His 'testifying' against her probably means that His providence in bereaving her witnessed to His disapprobation.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren
It threatened to force them to become again the instrument of bereaving their father of his darling child, and bringing about that very calamity which they had pledged themselves should never happen.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
