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# bereft

«bereft» in Mova's school dictionary: **Left without something important, such as a loved one or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (formal; used with 'of')

### meaning for a pupil

Left without something important, such as a loved one or a friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bereft/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a mother, lover or king who has lost a child or partner

### examples

- The king was bereft of his only daughter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bereft/#x1)
- The dog, bereft of its owner, waited at the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bereft/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And her gates shall lament and mourn; and utterly bereft she shall sit upon the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.82/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bereft» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bereft/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.