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From bereave + -ment.
bereavement (countable and uncountable, plural bereavements)
- The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.
- 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
- I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost
The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death
- Bulgarian: тежка загуба f (težka zaguba)
- Catalan: dol (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 喪親 / 丧亲 (zh) (sàngqīn)
- Czech: zármutek (cs) m, truchlení n, smutek (cs) m, žal (cs) m
- Dutch: verlies (nl), beroving (nl), sterfgeval (nl)
- Finnish: menetys (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: doly m
- French: privation (fr) f, deuil (fr) m
- German: Verlust (de) m
- Greek: πένθος (el) n (pénthos)
- Icelandic: ástvinamissir m, einstæðingsskapur m
- Italian: lutto (it) m
- Japanese: 死別 (ja) (しべつ, shibetsu)
- Latin: viduitās f
- Latvian: zaudējums m
- Portuguese: luto (pt) m
- Russian: утра́та (ru) f (utráta), тяжёлая утра́та f (tjažólaja utráta), поте́ря (ru) f (potérja)
- Spanish: duelo (es) m, luto (es) m
- Swedish: sorg (sv) c
- Ukrainian: втра́та f (vtráta), важка́ втра́та f (važká vtráta), тяжка́ втра́та f (tjažká vtráta)
- Yiddish: אַבֿלות n (aveyles)
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