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We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.
Stefanie Powers

Meaning of "bereft" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BEREFT

bereft  [bɪˈrɛft] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEREFT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bereft is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BEREFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of bereft in the English dictionary

The definition of bereft in the dictionary is deprived; parted.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BEREFT


aleft
əˈlɛft
antileft
ˌæntɪˈlɛft
antitheft
ˌæntɪˈθɛft
cleft
klɛft
copyleft
ˈkɒpɪˌlɛft
deft
dɛft
eft
ɛft
far-left
ˌfɑːˈlɛft
heft
hɛft
klepht
klɛft
left
lɛft
outside-left
ˌaʊtsaɪdˈlɛft
reft
rɛft
theft
θɛft
ultra-left
ˌʌltrəˈlɛft
unbereft
ˌʌnbɪˈrɛft
weft
wɛft

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEREFT

berdache
Berdyayev
bere
bereave
bereaved
bereavement
bereavement counselling
bereavement counsellor
bereaver
Berenice
Berenson
Beresford
beret
beretta
Berezina
Berezniki
berg
berg wind
bergama
bergamasko

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEREFT

eyes left
far left
hard left
hard-left
identity theft
infeft
inside-left
loony left
New Left
stage left
third party, fire and theft
to the left
uncleft

Synonyms and antonyms of bereft in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «bereft» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEREFT

Find out the translation of bereft to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bereft from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bereft» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

失去…的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desprovisto
570 millions of speakers

English

bereft
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

महरूम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مجردة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лишенный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desprovido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রি়জন-নিয়োগবিধুর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

démuni
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bereft
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bar
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

失って
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

~을 상실한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ditinggalake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bị tước mất
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பறிக்கப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निरुपयोगी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yoksun
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

privo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pozbawieni
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

позбавлений
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lipsit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στερημένοι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beroof
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

berövad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bereft
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bereft

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEREFT»

The term «bereft» is regularly used and occupies the 68.605 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BEREFT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bereft

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5 QUOTES WITH «BEREFT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bereft.
1
George Matthew Adams
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
2
Glen Duncan
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up book that I had read. It is the story of a young man who grows up to be a novelist. I finished it, and I wanted to write a book that made the reader feel the way I felt at the end of that, which was sort of both bereft and elated.
3
Beth Henley
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
4
Gerard Manley Hopkins
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
5
Stefanie Powers
We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEREFT»

Discover the use of bereft in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bereft and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Bereft
A CRIME UNSPEAKABLE Australia, 1919.
Chris Womersley, 2011
2
Bereft: A Sister's Story
Reflecting on the murder of her sister many years earlier, the author embarks on a journey to uncover everything she can about the crime, including the motive, which is strangely absent from her recollections. Reprint.
Jane Bernstein, 2001
3
Body Bereft
Almost four decadeslater, this very different collection will confirm her reputation with poems that blur and ravage the boundaries between the lyrical and confessional, the private and public.
Antjie Krog, 2011
4
Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and ...
Exploring neglected works in twentieth-century social thought and philosophy - particularly the writings of Lewis Mumford and Charles Peirce - as well as the work of contemporary writers such as Vaclav Havel, Maya Angelou, Milan Kundera, ...
Eugene Halton, 1995
5
Norman Bereft
NORMAN BEREFT Norman D Beech has narrowly squeezed by a fatal pile-up on life's highway.
Nicholas D. Brown, 2009
6
Bereft
Fourteen-year-old Rafael Fannen decides to fight back and take control of his life after enduring bullying, taunts about his sexuality, and racism at his all-male Catholic preparatory school.
Craig Laurance Gidney, 2013
7
Ghost-Bereft: With Other Stories and Studies in Verse
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Jane Barlow, 2012
8
How Sorrow Was Changed Into Sympathy, Words of Cheer for ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Elizabeth Prentiss, 2010
9
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
Her.1122 Bereft See also Ghost-bereft, Life-bereft. By right the worLd should have imposed: bereft 111.12 Sord. 1.699 "To amuse, not tempt become! and, thus bereft, 127.6 Sord. 3.48 "Heaven plain above them, yet of wings bereft: 166.55 ...
10
Playing in the Dark: The Emptiness Love Brings
Bereft's promise to Lot's daughters was a simple one. He would come back to them in a form other than that of the woman he seduced them with the night before. In return they would allow him to secretly observe their father's consecration ...
David Rivera, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEREFT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bereft is used in the context of the following news items.
1
England team return from Women's World Cup to start new chapter
... resolve from England, who put the bizarre nature of their semi-final elimination to one side and produced a performance bereft of nerves. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Eight noteworthy stats from the NCAA's annual attendance report
Comment: The Big Ten topped this category for a fourth straight year despite the addition of basketball-bereft Rutgers, but the ACC closed the ... «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
3
Classic Quadrophenia review – an unnecessary reinvention
... Mod, an angry, angst-ridden early 1960s youth hooked on amphetamine-fuelled fights on Brighton beach, yet bereft of identity and purpose. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
How to find gold: The Californian badlands, digging out crevasses …
The gold-seekers I met seemed broke, hungry and mostly bereft of the one thing they had come here for: gold. Yet cheerfully they kept on ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
5
Pospisil's Court 12 double-duty results in 10 sets of tennis, a big …
Pospisil and Sock came out a bit bereft against a good team in Jamie Murray (Andy's big brother) and Aussie John Peers, neither of whom are ... «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
6
Giant robots from US and Japan will have a real fight next year
Movies, comics, and anime are full of giant fighting robots, but real life has thus far been depressingly bereft of giant mechanized fighting ... «Geek, Jul 15»
7
Zack Snyder on the Superman villain that almost was
Batman v Superman won't be entirely bereft of representatives from Superman's rogue gallery, though. In the film, Jesse Eisenberg plays Lex ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jul 15»
8
How 'Jurassic World' Became One of the Biggest Blockbusters of All …
But the picture is utterly bereft of the human interest of his debut picture Safety Not Guaranteed, its characters as genetically engineered as the ... «Flavorwire, Jul 15»
9
The Most Awkward And Distasteful Moment In NBA Broadcast …
... broadcast history — that is infamous for its distastefulness, an exchange between a known jerk and an NBA legend so awkward and bereft of ... «SportsGrid, Jul 15»
10
The Bechdel Test is 30 years old. It's time to raise our expectations.
But while in prior years, these changes might have left us bereft of terrific friendships between women, Kalinda's departure and the finale of ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»

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