bereft
中文解釋
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Collins Definition
Adjective
Deprived of or lacking something, esp. a nonmaterial asset,
/biˈreft/,
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Deprived of or lacking something, esp. a nonmaterial asset,
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Deprived of or lacking something, esp. a nonmaterial asset
- - her room was stark and bereft of color
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(of a person) Lonely and abandoned, esp. through someone's death or departure
- - his death in 1990 left her bereft
Web Definitions:
- unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
- bereaved: sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"
- Bereft is a 2004 film written by Peter Ferland and directed by Tim Daly and J. Clark Mathis. Bereft is the first film Daly directed. It stars Vinessa Shaw, Michael C. ...
- pained by the loss of someone; deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of
- (bereftness) The quality of being bereft
- n. 1. Those who have lost a child. i.e., just as one might say, "I am a widow" or "I am an orphan," likewise a parent whose child has died would say, "I am a bereft." (Contributor note: Wendy writes about why she chose this word and says, "... ...
- To be bereft of something is not to lack it but to be dispossessed of it, to lose it. A spinster is not bereft of a husband, but a widow is. (The word is the past participle of bereave.) (37)