[
UK
/bɪɹˈiːvmənt/
]
[ US /bɝˈivmənt/ ]
[ US /bɝˈivmənt/ ]
NOUN
- state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
How To Use bereavement In A Sentence
- New members are always welcome, irrespective of what stage of bereavement they are at.
- She has recently suffered a bereavement.
- Grief is a powerful feeling, bereavement is as natural a life process as the passing of the seasons. Times, Sunday Times
- Debut novelists will make up nearly half of the Orange prize for fiction longlist, which this year tackles strikingly difficult subjects: incest, sadistic cruelty, polygamy, child bereavement, hermaphroditism and mental illness. Orange prize longlist tackles difficult subjects – and alligators
- Share your feelings with a bereavement counsellor. The Sun
- To do so would, but unchristianize the deep grief which bereavement awakens, and which true piety sanctifies; it would unhumanize the very constitution of home itself. The Christian Home
- I am no bereavement counsellor, but in the last few months, I have learned a lot about ‘coping’ after my mother passed away.
- Crying is now seen as a normal male reaction to anything from bereavement to loneliness to a moving scene on television.
- Most will have relatively mild symptoms linked to underlying problems such as work and relationship difficulties, financial troubles, physical illness or bereavement. Times, Sunday Times
- Death was placed alongside the other kinds of bereavement that we were likely to experience in the normal life cycle. Why am I Afraid to Grieve