bereaver
One who grieves
One who bereaves—who deprives another of something valued, especially through death.
The word is rare, appearing occasionally in literary or religious contexts: Death, the great bereaver, comes for us all.
More common forms are the adjective bereaved and the noun bereavement.
No longer living
- funeralService honoring the dead
- obituaryNotice of someone's passing
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
interment · casket · pallbearer · cemetery · wake · requiem · hearse · mausoleum
Deep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- mourningPeriod following loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
desolation · woe · despair · melancholy · sadness · emptiness · suffering · pain
Appointed estate manager
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- heirOne who receives legacy
- probateWill validation proceedings
testament · bequest · legacy · beneficiary · trustee · succession · intestate · codicil
deceased
No longer living
memorial · interment · casket · pallbearer · cemetery · wake · requiem · hearse · mausoleum · condolences
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
lamentation · desolation · woe · despair · melancholy · sadness · emptiness · suffering · pain · distress
executor
Appointed estate manager
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- heirOne who receives legacy
probate · testament · bequest · legacy · beneficiary · trustee · succession · intestate · codicil · estate
bereavercomforter
Quilted bed covering
consoler · soother · sympathizer · grief counselor · shoulder to cry on
- bereavement leaveWork absence for mourning
- bereaved parentOne who lost a child
- bereaved familiesRelatives of the deceased
- bereavement supportHelp for those mourning
- bereavement careAid for the grieving
- bereavement payWages during mourning leave
bereaved, bereavement, bereave, bereaving, bereaves, bereavements