Definitions for bereave

bereave be·reave

Spelling: [bih-reev]
IPA: /bɪˈriv/

Bereave is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in bereave (abeeerv).

Definitions for bereave

verb (used with object)

  1. to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of):
  2. to deprive ruthlessly or by force (usually followed by of):
  3. Obsolete. to take away by violence.

Origin of bereave

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

Examples for bereave

Receive, and believe, and bereave should be cut out at once.

The loss of all others will not bereave you of happiness if this be possessed.

They whom it must bereave seemed for the time immeasurably removed from the fact.

I hold it not a brotherly part to desire to bereave me of my two children at once.

Possibly (but I hardly think so) the critique was afterwards shortened, so as to bereave it of this merit.

And yet imperious necessity may bereave us even of that joy.

For as for that which doth not, it is its own fault and loss, if it bereave itself of her light.

I think of the fathers and mothers whom further fighting must bereave.

It seemed as if God intended to bereave us of her, for he brought her even to death's door.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Word Value for bereave
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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