bereftadjective [ after verb ]
uk/bɪˈreft/us/bɪˈreft/formalnot having something or feeling great loss:
Alone now and almost penniless, he was bereft of hope.
After the last of their children had left home the couple felt utterly bereft.
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Lacking things
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- be hard up (for sth) idiom
- catch
- cry out for sth
- cupboard
- demand
- hole
- lacking
- need
- need sth like you need a hole in the head idiom
- needful
- needy
- short
- take
- the cupboard is bare idiom
- the UN
- unsatisfied
- vacuum
- want
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