LekhoriLekhorisimple past and past participle of bereave
bereft of strength
Pained by the loss of someone.
I was utterly bereft in the months following my wife's death.
Deprived of, stripped of, robbed of.
And there I strove, and there I clove through the drift of icy streams; / And there I fought, and there I sought for the pay-streak of my dreams. // So twenty years, with their hopes and fears and smiles and tears and such, / Went by and left me long bereft of hope of the Midas touch; […]
From Middle English bireft, v. Middle English bireven. Synchronically a form of bereaved; compare leave and left.
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