bereavedadjective

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bereft | American Dictionary

bereft
adjective
us/bɪˈreft/
having to do without something or someone and suffering from the loss:
I do hope he won't leave us utterly bereft of his wit and wisdom.

Examples of bereft

bereft
A purely abstract composition, it is entirely bereft of gimmicks or obvious stimuli.
The wife dies and the husband is left bereft.
It is instructive to note that principles are things of which such people and bodies so often seem to be bereft.
The war-scorched landscape is bereft of human presence.
Subsequent visitors, therefore, found themselves bereft of guidance when viewing other fabrics, and their comments were correspondingly limited.
But if we only have the first kind of history, the rhetoricized, we only recover a past in its otherness, bereft of context.
The natural person who follows a scriptural injunction as to offending members may find himself eternally bereft; the group person is more fortunate.
More generally speaking too, free-floating individuals bereft of a community identity were potential criminals who often took to breaking the law.
From this perspective, organs are bereft of any symbolic meaning and do not have any significance for the person.
However, none but the most ideologically pure and intellectually bereft will be able to discount this work.
Warts and all, that is no small achievement in a field so bereft of comparative research.
Yet many would doubt that the original scriptural text is so bereft of argument as is alleged here.
Instead, readers are bereft of predictable orientation and lacking heroic characters or an omnipresent narrator to guide them.
It resides, on their view, in certain elite thinkers, whereas others are bereft.
This was in fact a general strategy of a government bereft of social supporters and anxious to establish a solid relationship with relevant sectors of civil society.
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