- bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing - sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"
Antonym: joyful (indirect, via sorrowful)
- bereave - deprive through death
--1 is one way to deprive, strip, divest
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun bereavement1
Somebody ----s somebody of something