BEREFT


Meaning of BEREFT in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Feeling oddly bereft and desolate, besieged by Dolly's incessant chatter, Luce was pleased to get back to the hotel.

For the destitute, the impoverished, the sick, the hunted and the bereft , life was intolerably precarious.

How haggard and bereft of hope they looked!

Now bereft of roofs and windows, its sightless eyes command a superb view of the Swale far below.

She wanted to see him so badly that she felt physically bereft .

So many shop-window dummies, suddenly bereft of all life.

Thus was the contrary proved: the party was bereft of new ideas altogether.

Was it too as bereft as she now was?

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