bereaves
Leaves in mourning
Bereaves is the present tense of bereave, meaning to deprive someone of a loved one through death.
The word emphasizes the loss felt by survivors: Cancer bereaves thousands of families each year.
Bereave appears most often in its past participle forms—bereaved or bereft—describing those left behind after a death.
Deep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- despairTotal absence of hope
suffering · agony · torment · desolation · misery · distress · woe · trauma
Service honoring the dead
- wakePath left in water
- shivaJewish week of mourning
- condolencesExpressions of grief support
- sympathyCompassionate understanding of others
memorial · eulogy · obituary · remembrance · keening · lamentation · weeping · grieving
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
despair · suffering · agony · torment · desolation · misery · distress · woe · trauma · bereft
funeral
Service honoring the dead
- wakePath left in water
- shivaJewish week of mourning
- condolencesExpressions of grief support
sympathy · memorial · eulogy · obituary · remembrance · keening · lamentation · weeping · grieving · black
death
Cessation of life
emptiness · deprivation · orphaned · widowed · dispossessed · robbed · stripped · deprived · taken · separation
bereavesrestores
Returns to previous state
reunites · returns · brings back · resurrects · gives back
- 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