bereft
/bɪˈrɛft/
US pronunciation
American sound/bɪˈrɛft/
bɪˈrɛft
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
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- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
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bɪ - ˈrɛft -> bereft
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
bereft /bÇ'reft/ adj ~ (of sth) (fml )
၁။ အရည်အသွေး၊ အစွမ်း၊ အာနိသင် မဲ့သော၊ ဆုံးရှုံးခဲ့သော။ be bereft of speech (ie be unable to speak) ❍ bereft of hope (ie without hope) ❍ bereft of reason (ie mad).
၂။ အထောက်အပံ့၊ အကြံဉာဏ်၊ မျှော်လင့်ချက် စသည် ကင်းမဲ့သော။ He was utterly bereft when his wife died. ❍ She felt alone and bereft in the big city. ❍ The government seems bereft in the face of the country's economic problems.
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- bereft /bÇ'reft/ adj ~ (of sth) ( fml ) ၁။ အရည်အသွေး၊ အစွမ်း၊ အာနိသင် မဲ့သော၊ ဆုံးရှုံးခဲ့သော။ be bereft of speech (ie be unable to speak)
- bereft of hope (ie without hope)
- bereft of reason (ie mad). ၂။ အထောက်အပံ့၊ အကြံဉာဏ်၊ မျှော်လင့်ချက် စသည် ကင်းမဲ့သော။ He was utterly bereft when his wife died.
- She felt alone and bereft in the big city.
- The government seems bereft in the face of the country's economic problems.
Synonyms
beggared, bereaved, crossed in love, cut off, deprived, destitute, devoid, dispossessed, divested, empty, fleeced, grieving, impoverished, in mourning, lacking, lacking; missing, left without, lovelorn, minus, mourning, naked, orphaned, parted from, robbed, shorn, starved, stripped, wanting, widowed, without
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