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bereft

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bereft/bɪˈreft/

▶adjective

1 (bereft of) deprived of or lacking: her room was bereft of colour.

2 lonely and abandoned.

– origin C16: archaic past part. of bereave.

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