bereft

About 0.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb simple past and past participle of bereave

   bereft of strength

2. adjective Pained by the loss of someone.

   I was utterly bereft in the months following my wife's death.

3. adjective Deprived of, stripped of, robbed of.
4. adjective Lacking, devoid of.

Similar words

grief-stricken sorrowing sorrowful grieving mourning lovelorn unbeloved unloved distraught desperate

Often followed by

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