Difference between Bereaved and Bereft

What is the difference between Bereaved and Bereft?

Bereaved as a verb is to deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim. while Bereft as a verb is to deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim.

Bereaved

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having suffered the death of a loved one

Bereft

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (of a person) pained by the loss of someonedeprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of

We hope you now know whether to use Bereaved or Bereft in your sentence.

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