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bereft

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Left without something needed or valued, often through loss.

The final chapter seemed bereft of the humor that enlivened the opening.

Dictionary practice example.

Bereft of her former colleagues, the remaining mapmaker struggled to find anyone who remembered the small rituals of their working days.