"bereave" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /bɪˈɹiːv/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-bereave.ogg [US], en-au-bereave.ogg [Australia] Forms: bereaves [present, singular, third-person], bereaving [participle, present], bereaved [participle, past], bereaved [past], bereft [participle, past], bereft [past]
Rhymes: -iːv Etymology: From Middle English bireven, from Old English berēafian (“to bereave, deprive of, take away, seize, rob, despoil”), from Proto-Germanic *biraubōną, and Old English berēofan (“to bereave, deprive, rob of”); both equivalent to be- + reave. Cognate with Dutch beroven (“to rob, deprive, bereave”), German berauben (“to deprive, rob, bereave”), Danish berøve (“to deprive of”), Norwegian berøve (“to deprive”), Swedish beröva (“to rob”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌱𐍉𐌽 (biraubōn). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*Hrewp-}}, {{inh|en|enm|bireven}} Middle English bireven, {{inh|en|ang|berēafian|t=to bereave, deprive of, take away, seize, rob, despoil}} Old English berēafian (“to bereave, deprive of, take away, seize, rob, despoil”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*biraubōną}} Proto-Germanic *biraubōną, {{der|en|ang|berēofan|t=to bereave, deprive, rob of}} Old English berēofan (“to bereave, deprive, rob of”), {{af|en|be-|reave}} be- + reave, {{cog|nl|beroven|t=to rob, deprive, bereave}} Dutch beroven (“to rob, deprive, bereave”), {{cog|de|berauben|t=to deprive, rob, bereave}} German berauben (“to deprive, rob, bereave”), {{cog|da|berøve|t=to deprive of}} Danish berøve (“to deprive of”), {{cog|no|berøve|t=to deprive}} Norwegian berøve (“to deprive”), {{cog|sv|beröva|t=to rob}} Swedish beröva (“to rob”), {{cog|got|𐌱𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌱𐍉𐌽}} Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌱𐍉𐌽 (biraubōn) Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=bereft}} bereave (third-person singular simple present bereaves, present participle bereaving, simple past and past participle bereaved or bereft)
  1. (transitive) To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-bereave-en-verb-USFugbsS
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-bereave-en-verb-UX6B8cd8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 49 4 7 32 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 6 46 4 7 37
  3. (transitive) To deprive of power; prevent. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-bereave-en-verb-ye8e~eAO
  4. (transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive. Tags: transitive Translations (To take away someone or something important or close): отнемам (otnemam) (Bulgarian), лишавам от (lišavam ot) (Bulgarian), připravit pf o co (Czech), berøve (Danish), beroven (Dutch), ontnemen (Dutch), riistää (Finnish), arracher (French), berauben (German), megfoszt (Hungarian), svipta (Icelandic), ræna (Icelandic), svipta ástvinum (english: take away loved ones) (Icelandic), privare (Italian), viduō (Latin), privo (Latin), spolio (Latin), strūdan (Old English), zabierać (Polish), pozbawiać (Polish), odbierać (Polish), espoliar (Portuguese), отнима́ть (otnimátʹ) (Russian), лиша́ть (lišátʹ) (Russian), arrebatar (Spanish), despojar (Spanish), desposeer (Spanish), privar (Spanish), beröva (Swedish), frånta (Swedish), відбирати (vidbyraty) (Ukrainian), позбавляти (pozbavljaty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-bereave-en-verb-86bbIK6s Disambiguation of 'To take away someone or something important or close': 7 38 4 49 3
  5. (intransitive, rare) To destroy life; cut off. Tags: intransitive, rare
    Sense id: en-bereave-en-verb-dfXMm1wL Categories (other): English terms prefixed with be- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with be-: 10 17 9 15 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bereavement, bereaver Related terms: reave

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
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          "word": "riistää"
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          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "arracher"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "berauben"
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        {
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "megfoszt"
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          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
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          "lang": "Icelandic",
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          "english": "take away loved ones",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "svipta ástvinum"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "privare"
        },
        {
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "viduō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 38 4 49 3",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "privo"
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          "_dis1": "7 38 4 49 3",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "spolio"
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          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "strūdan"
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "zabierać"
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          "_dis1": "7 38 4 49 3",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "pozbawiać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 38 4 49 3",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "odbierać"
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          "_dis1": "7 38 4 49 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "espoliar"
        },
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          "_dis1": "7 38 4 49 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otnimátʹ",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "отнима́ть"
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          "_dis1": "7 38 4 49 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "lišátʹ",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "лиша́ть"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "arrebatar"
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          "_dis1": "7 38 4 49 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "despojar"
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          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "desposeer"
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          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "beröva"
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          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "frånta"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "vidbyraty",
          "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
          "word": "відбирати"
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        "t": "to deprive, rob, bereave"
      },
      "expansion": "German berauben (“to deprive, rob, bereave”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "berøve",
        "t": "to deprive of"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish berøve (“to deprive of”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "no",
        "2": "berøve",
        "t": "to deprive"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian berøve (“to deprive”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "beröva",
        "t": "to rob"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish beröva (“to rob”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌱𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌱𐍉𐌽"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌱𐍉𐌽 (biraubōn)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bireven, from Old English berēafian (“to bereave, deprive of, take away, seize, rob, despoil”), from Proto-Germanic *biraubōną, and Old English berēofan (“to bereave, deprive, rob of”); both equivalent to be- + reave. Cognate with Dutch beroven (“to rob, deprive, bereave”), German berauben (“to deprive, rob, bereave”), Danish berøve (“to deprive of”), Norwegian berøve (“to deprive”), Swedish beröva (“to rob”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌱𐍉𐌽 (biraubōn).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bereaves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bereaving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bereaved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bereaved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bereft",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bereft",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "past2": "bereft"
      },
      "expansion": "bereave (third-person singular simple present bereaves, present participle bereaving, simple past and past participle bereaved or bereft)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "reave"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1719, Thomas Tickell, On the Death of Mr. Addison",
          "text": "bereft of him who taught me how to sing",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deprive",
          "deprive"
        ],
        [
          "rob",
          "rob"
        ],
        [
          "strip",
          "strip"
        ],
        [
          "benim",
          "benim"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take away",
          "take away"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, obsolete) To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deprive of power; prevent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prevent",
          "prevent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To deprive of power; prevent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Death bereaved him of his wife.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The castaways were bereft of hope.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deprive",
          "deprive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To destroy life; cut off."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ],
        [
          "cut off",
          "cut off"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, rare) To destroy life; cut off."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɪˈɹiːv/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːv"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-bereave.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bb/En-us-bereave.ogg/En-us-bereave.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/En-us-bereave.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bereave.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/En-au-bereave.ogg/En-au-bereave.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/En-au-bereave.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otnemam",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "отнемам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "lišavam ot",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "лишавам от"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "připravit pf o co"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "berøve"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "beroven"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "ontnemen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "riistää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "arracher"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "berauben"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "megfoszt"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "svipta"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "ræna"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "english": "take away loved ones",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "svipta ástvinum"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "privare"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "viduō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "privo"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "spolio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "strūdan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "zabierać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "pozbawiać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "odbierać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "espoliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otnimátʹ",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "отнима́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lišátʹ",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "лиша́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "arrebatar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "despojar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "desposeer"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "privar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "beröva"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "frånta"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vidbyraty",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "відбирати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pozbavljaty",
      "sense": "To take away someone or something important or close",
      "word": "позбавляти"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bereave"
}

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