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bereft

/bih-reft/US // bɪˈrɛft //UK // (bɪˈrɛft) //

失落的,哀伤,失落,哀伤的

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : a simple past tense and past participle of bereave.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : deprived: They are bereft of their senses. He is bereft of all happiness.

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Examples

  • Where we may once have pined for our cubicles or our commutes, we would now feel bereft without our porch swing and our sectional couch.

  • She said she understands the need for more housing and economic growth but worries new construction will be both unaffordable and bereft of green space.

  • This is a party that is immune to facts and bereft of decency.

  • With a high temperature of 40 — four degrees below normal — and tree branches bereft of leaves, Saturday was obviously wintry.

  • Anyone seeking mutual understanding—let alone dignity—left bereft.

  • Bereft of a competitive 2016 primary, Democrats are backing candidates for Clinton campaign manager.

  • They happened to men, to women, to young and old, to scientists and sailors, to the bereft and to the content.

  • She was a teenage single mother in a place bereft of options and Isaias spoke to her about a land of promise.

  • Kirsty, understandably, was not impressed at being dumped on her dream day, and her bereft wail filled the church.

  • When Sylvia breaks off their affair and begs Don to truly go home to Megan, he is visibly bereft.

  • She stood there as if Garnache's words had turned her into marble, bereft of speech through very rage.

  • But he now spoke to one bereft of sense—of any feeling save that of choking, withering, blighting agony.

  • Oh, heart-broken at the sight of one son dead and the other dying, I was bereft of reasoning!

  • If he fell, the monument would find itself bereft of all its elegance, split as by some long and irreparable crack.

  • When it could be kept from him no longer the truth was broken to him gently, but it almost bereft him of reason.