transitive verb. To take a loved one from (a person), especially by death.

transitive verb. To take something valuable or necessary from (a person or thing).

To deprive by or as if by violence; rob; strip: with of before the thing taken away.

[It is sometimes used without of, more especially in the passive, the subject of the verb being either the person deprived or the thing taken away.

To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.

To deprive of power; prevent.

To destroy life; cut off.

transitive verb. To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.

transitive verb. To take away from.

transitive verb. To take away.

verb. To deprive by or as if by violence; rob; strip.

verb. To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.

verb. To deprive of power; prevent.

verb. To take away someone or something important or close; deprive.

verb. To destroy life; cut off.

verb. deprive through death

""bereave" in Eze 36: 13; but "cause to fall" or "stumble," in the Hebrew text or Chetib, being the more difficult reading, is the one least likely to come from a corrector; also, it forms a good transition to the next subject, namely, the moral cause of the people's calamities, namely, their falls, or stumblings through sin."

reave  

bereavement  

deprive  divest  strip  

Eve  Kleve  Neave  Rajiv  Steve  

abashed  ashamed  averse  broken-hearted  deaf  

abridge  bleed  curtail  cut off  deprive  

bereaved  bereaves  bereaving  bereft