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was bereaved
verb
To deprive by or as if by violence; rob; strip.
Exact(5)
Maurois was bereaved, and free.
It wasn't when I had cancer, or when I was bereaved.
"I was bereaved of my mother and my identity," she said.
She was bereaved by the death of Francis (1622), and in 1627 her son died in battle.
He asked her why she wept, and she told him that she was bereaved, because her favorite bagel place had just closed.
Similar(55)
Especially if the person who is bereaved blames you, at least indirectly, for his bereavement.
Reece Witherspoon is bereaved.
Both are bereaved.
That their families are bereaved?
Practically every character is bereaved.
"I'm afraid and I'm bereaved.
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