To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip.
Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.
All your interest in those territories / Is utterly bereft you; all is lost.
To deprive of power; prevent.
Inherited 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, dep...
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