All 10 Uses of
bereaved
in
The Ramayana
- The queen, who loved her perished lord, For meet reply, the saint adored, And, of her husband long bereaved, She bore a son by him conceived.†
Book 1 *
- Thus in their woe, like kine bereaved Of their young calves,(287) the ladies grieved, And ever as they wept and wailed With keen reproach the king assailed.†
Book 2
- If ever wretch by anguish grieved Before his hour to death had fled, I mourning, like a cow bereaved, Had been this day among the dead.†
Book 2
- Thy heart shall ne'er by me be grieved; Do not my prayer deny: Take me, dear lord; of thee bereaved Thy Sítá swears to die."†
Book 2
- The royal dames, like cows bereaved Of their young calves, thus sadly grieved.†
Book 2
- I cannot live for even one Short hour bereaved of my son.†
Book 2
- For thee he longed, for thee he grieved, His every thought on thee was bent, And crushed by woe, of thee bereaved, He thought of thee as hence he went.†
Book 2
- Still motionless, as lie the slain, The brothers pressed the bloody plain, No sigh they drew, no breath they heaved, And lay as though of life bereaved.†
Book 6
- There low on earth his foe lay crushed: At King Sugríva next he rushed, Who, waiting for the charge, stood still, And heaved on high a shattered hill, He looked on Kumbhakar? a dyed With streams of blood, and fiercely cried: "Great glory has thine arm achieved, And thousands of their lives bereaved.†
Book 6
- Soon must we sink bereaved of sense; And then the victor, hurrying hence, Will seek his father in his hall And tell him of his foemen's fall."†
Book 6
Definition:
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(bereaved) a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved