Bereaving

Word BEREAVING
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Definitions and meanings of "Bereaving"

What do we mean by bereaving?

To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim.

To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.

To deprive of power; prevent.

To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.

To destroy life; cut off.

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The word "bereaving" in example sentences

It was he who in the dead of night, amidst flickering candles and silent, bereaving crowds, sung out these words, only to be followed by the chorus of thousands following him, the echo expressing the national spirit. ❋ Natalia Brzezinski (2010)

Time travel, genies, and bereaving heroines make for warm wonderful whimsy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Zee takes the newborn with her while Sam assists her by constructing a bottle nipple and offering a shoulder for a bereaving Caleb whom he just met. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Chairs lined up around the perimeter of the room quickly filled with family and friends of the bereaving family. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not less than the joyful surprise of the senior, who had supposed himself in the extremity of peril from which he was thus unexpectedly relieved, was that of our excellent friend Caleb, when he found the pursuer intended to add to his prize, instead of bereaving him of it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When Jacob accuses them of bereaving him of his children, Reuben doesn't just try to offer comfort, he offers his own sons if he fails to bring Benjamin back. ❋ Julie D. (2005)

It comes on him by stealth, bereaving him ruthlessly of all other interest in life. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Him, his Grace the Archbishop perpetually obstructed, cutting him out with his elbow in the moment of success, despatching him in degrading quest of melted butter, and, when by any chance he got hold of any dish worth having, bereaving him of it, and ordering him to stand back. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She is bereaving and she's crying and she's hurt, and as well as anyone would be if they had lost a child in that fashion. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Grounds staff, the bereaving, everyone looked weighted down by the tragedy. ❋ V.C.Andrews® (1995)

I can't find it, and this one is pretty well chewed up, said Tom, bereaving ❋ Unknown (1950)

Alexandrian library, bereaving the world at one blow of that priceless culture-inheritance. ❋ Durant Drake (N/A)

How barbarously unfeeling must that wretch be who, in bereaving the religious, the pious, and the conscientious of their consolation and hope, adds the tormenting reproach of apostasy, by forcing virtue upon its knees to bow before what it knows to be guilt and infamy. ❋ Various (N/A)

Nathan Bricket taking in hand to fill the grave, I said, Forbear a little, and suffer me to say that amidst our bereaving sorrows we have the comfort of beholding this saint put into the rightful possession of that happiness of living desir'd and dying lamented. ❋ Carl Holliday (N/A)

Had the Italian National Council, bereaving themselves of ❋ Henry Baerlein (1917)

Hatred of England, quickened though it had been by the harsh conditions of the treaty of Paris bereaving us of Canada, in 1763, had much less to do with it than is sometimes alleged. ❋ Unknown (1916)

They were accompanied by a Californian Indian, a young centaur, who handled his lasso with a dexterity which threw all the Mexican exploits I had previously seen Into the shade, and was the means of bereaving several cows of their calves when we were in the buffalo-range. ❋ Unknown (1916)

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