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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 United Nations specialized agencies should be encouraged to join in this process fully at this early stage, as waiting for it to be concluded will bereave them of early ownership and the possibility of influence.
It is like you bereave the loss of your child time and time again, as many times as your failed attempts.
I think of the fathers and mothers whom further fighting must bereave.
Here the word must have been upheave, the rimes being leave, cleave, bereave.
It seemed as if God intended to bereave us of her, for he brought her even to death's door.
I hold it not a brotherly part to desire to bereave me of my two children at once.

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