bereave

What does bereave mean?

bereave means "deprive through death".

How many syllables are in bereave?

bereave has 2 syllables: be-reave. The stress falls on "reave". In IPA it is /bɚˈiv/.

Is bereave a common word?

bereave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bereave?

2 words rhyme with bereave. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bereave come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.