adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Feeling oddly bereft and desolate, besieged by Dolly's incessant chatter, Luce was pleased to get back to the hotel.
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For the destitute, the impoverished, the sick, the hunted and the bereft , life was intolerably precarious.
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How haggard and bereft of hope they looked!
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Now bereft of roofs and windows, its sightless eyes command a superb view of the Swale far below.
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She wanted to see him so badly that she felt physically bereft .
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So many shop-window dummies, suddenly bereft of all life.
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Thus was the contrary proved: the party was bereft of new ideas altogether.
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Was it too as bereft as she now was?