bereave
/bih-reev/US // bɪˈriv //UK // (bɪˈriːv) //
丧亲之痛,丧亲,丧家之犬,丧亲者
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v.有主动词 verb
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be·reaved or be·reft, be·reav·ing.
- : to deprive and make desolate, especially by death: Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- : to deprive ruthlessly or by force: The war bereaved them of their home.
- : Obsolete. to take away by violence.
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verbdeprive
Forms: bereaved, bereft
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That’s roughly triple the death toll so far, leaving behind 116,900 parentally bereaved kids.
She will thee bereave of almost every joy, the fair-faced foster-child of Heimir.
To whom, think ye, is your life of such consequence, that they should seek to bereave ye of it?
And, dear sweetheart, be not afraid that you shall be left without a lover; that I shall bereave you!
But as a taste of blood will infuriate a hound, so her own laughter seemed to bereave Bianca of all restraint.
Fortuna opes auferre, non animum potest—Fortune may bereave us of wealth, but not of courage.
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