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What does bereave mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word bereave? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To deprive by or as if by violence; rob; strip.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.
  3. (transitive) To deprive of power; prevent.
  4. (transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.
  5. (intransitive, rare) To destroy life; cut off.
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The loss of all others will not bereave you of happiness if this be possessed.
Another charming word I have come to embrace: bereave — to deprive or rob.
They whom it must bereave seemed for the time immeasurably removed from the fact.
I think of the fathers and mothers whom further fighting must bereave.
It is like you bereave the loss of your child time and time again, as many times as your failed attempts.
Possibly the critique was afterwards shortened, so as to bereave it of this merit.

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