Usually means: Grieving the loss of someone.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word bereaved:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. bereaved, the bereaved: Merriam-Webster
  2. bereaved: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. bereaved: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bereaved: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bereaved, bereaved: Wordnik
  6. bereaved, the bereaved: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bereaved: Wiktionary
  8. bereaved: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bereaved: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bereaved: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bereaved, bereaved, the bereaved: Dictionary.com
  12. bereaved: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Bereaved: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bereaved: Rhymezone
  15. bereaved: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. bereaved: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. bereaved: FreeDictionary.org
  18. bereaved: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. bereaved: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. bereaved: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bereaved: Legal dictionary
  2. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

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▸ adjective:  having suffered the death of a loved one

Similar:
grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing, sorrowful, mourning, widowed, widowered, viduated, sainted, widowy, more...

Opposite:
comforted, consoled, relieved

Types:
grieving, mourning, sorrowful, heartbroken, devastated, more...

Phrases:
bereaved person, the bereaved, bereaved parent, more...

Adjectives:
elderly, many, early, older, younger, bear, poor, credulous, immediate, only, newly

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Similar:
grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing, sorrowful, mourning, widowed, widowered, viduated, sainted, widowy, more...

Opposite:
comforted, consoled, relieved

Types:
grieving, mourning, sorrowful, heartbroken, devastated, more...

Phrases:
bereaved person, the bereaved, bereaved parent, more...

Adjectives:
elderly, many, early, older, younger, bear, poor, credulous, immediate, only, newly

Colors:
    black,     gray,     charcoal,     maroon,     burgundy, more...



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