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Definitions for Bereft

[1] a simple past tense and past participle of bereave.
[2] deprived: They are bereft of their senses. He is bereft of all happiness.
[3] to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of ): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
[4] to deprive ruthlessly or by force (usually followed by of ): The war bereaved them of their home.
[5] Obsolete . to take away by violence.
[6] (usually foll by of) deprived; parted (from) bereft of hope
[7] (usually foll by of) to deprive (of) something or someone valued, esp through death
[8] obsolete to remove by force

Words related to Bereft

destitute, devoid, impoverished, minus, naked, stripped, wanting, without, deprived, beggared, bereaved, dispossessed, fleeced, robbed, shorn

Words nearby Bereft

berea, bereave, bereaved, bereavement, berecyntia, bereft, berenice, berenice's hair, berenson, beresford, beret

Origin of Bereft

avebefore 900; Middle English bereven, Old English berēafian; cognate with Dutch berooven, German berauben, Gothic biraubōn. See be-, reave1

Other words from Bereft

be·reave·ment , noun
be·reav·er , noun

Word origin for Bereft

aveOld English bereafian ; see reave 1

Synonyms for Bereft

beggared, bereaved, cut off, deprived, destitute, devoid, dispossessed, divested, fleeced, impoverished, left without, minus, naked, parted from, robbed, shorn, stripped, wanting, without