Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BEREFT

pp. of bereave. Deprived; made destitute.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BEREFT

BEREFT Be *reft ", imp. & p. p.

 

Defn: of Bereave.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

bereft

be reft |biˈreft bəˈrɛft | archaic past participle of bereave. ▶adjective deprived of or lacking something, esp. a nonmaterial asset: her room was stark and bereft of color. • (of a person ) lonely and abandoned, esp. through someone's death or departure: his death in 1990 left her bereft.

 

Oxford Dictionary

bereft

be ¦reft |bɪˈrɛft | ▶adjective 1 (bereft of ) deprived of or lacking (something ): her room was stark and bereft of colour. 2 (of a person ) sad and lonely, especially through someone's death or departure: his death in 1990 left her bereft. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: archaic past participle of bereave .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

bereft

bereft adjective are you totally bereft of common sense? deprived of, robbed of, stripped of, devoid of, bankrupt of; wanting, in need of, lacking, without; informal minus, sans, clean out of.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

bereft

bereft adjective the peasantry were bereft of any opportunity for social mobility: deprived of, robbed of, stripped of, denuded of; cut off from, parted from, devoid of, destitute of, bankrupt of; wanting, in need of, lacking, without, free from; low on, short of, deficient in; informal minus, sans, clean out of, fresh out of.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

bereft

be reft /bɪréft /動詞 bereaveの過去形 過去分詞 .形容詞 ｟かたく ｠1 【大切な物などを 】奪われた, (完全に )失った , «…が » ない «of » .2 (死別などによって )孤独で寂しい ; 希望 [心の支え ]を失った ; 茫 （ぼう ）然とした .