bereave (the commonest use is ‘to deprive’ a person “of” a thing, chiefly in pa. pple. “bereft”)
1.
to take away (a thing) “from” a person 2H6 III. i. 85, Oth. I. iii. 259, Lucr. 835; always passive.
2.
to rob of its
strength or beauty, (hence) to impair, spoil
Err. II. i. 40
“to see like right
bereft,”
Lr. IV. iv. 9
“his bereaved
sense,”
Ven. 797.