From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
bereaved \be*reaved"\ (b[-e]*r[=e]v"), adjective mourning due to the death of a loved one.
Syn: bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning(prenominal), sorrowing(prenominal). [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bereave \Be*reave"\ (b[-e]*r[=e]v"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bereaved} (b[-e]*r[=e]vd"), {Bereft} (b[-e]*r[e^]ft"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bereaving.}] [OE. bireven, AS. bere['a]fian. See {Be-}, and {Reave.}]
1. To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
Madam, you have bereft me of all words. --Shak.
Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. --Tickell.
All your interest in those territories Is utterly bereft you; all is lost. --Shak.
Shall move you to bereave my life. --Marlowe.
Note: The imp. and past pple. form bereaved is not used in reference to immaterial objects. We say bereaved or bereft by death of a relative, bereft of hope and strength.
Syn: To dispossess; to divest.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope" [syn: {bereft}, {grief-stricken}, {grieving}, {mourning(a)}, {sorrowing(a)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "bereaved": beggared, beggarly, bereaved of, bereft, cut off, denuded, deprived, deprived of, disadvantaged, distressed, divested, fatherless, fleeced, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, lacking, mendicant, minus, motherless, necessitous, needy, on relief, orphan, orphaned, out at elbows, out of, parentless, parted from, pauperized, poverty-stricken, robbed of, shorn of, sorrowing, starveling, stripped, stripped of, underprivileged, wanting, widowed
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