Synonyms for bereavement
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bih-reev-muh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : bɪˈriv mənt |
Définition of bereavement
Origin :- 1731, from bereave + -ment.
- noun death; loss
- You who knew her will realize the depth and extent of my bereavement.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- Something to strive for we demand, even at the risk of bereavement.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- He remembered, just in time, to express regret at Miss Simpson's bereavement.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Loving her as he did, he was glad, and realized not his bereavement.
- Extract from : « Gloria and Treeless Street » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
- And you remember how pleasures mingle with pains in lamentation and bereavement?
- Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato
- I condole with you in your bereavement, but it is the fortune of war.
- Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini
- As my bereavement is only a sham, I perform the affliction without difficulty.
- Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
- It is now two months and more since this bereavement befell her.
- Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- The loss of that favor in which, as in a sunshine, he basked, is a bereavement too great to be borne.
- Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
- The episode had made him reconsider, like a great sickness or a bereavement.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
Antonyms for bereavement
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