bereft of

bereft of (someone or something)

Completely lacking something. The children at the orphanage are bereft of any family members. After crying all day at the hospital, I was bereft of all emotion when I got home.
See also: bereft, of
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bereft of someone or something

left without someone or something. (Bereft is the past participle of bereave, functioning here as an adjective.) Tom was bereft of all hope. The child was bereft of his parents.
See also: bereft, of
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • bereft
  • bereft of (someone or something)
  • not have two (something) to rub together
  • not have two brain cells, pennies, etc. to rub together
  • not have two to rub together
  • stone cold
  • crying shame
  • crying shame, a
  • a crying shame
  • cry for
References in classic literature
He scoffed at them as adventures, mountebanks, sideshow riffraff, dime museum freaks; he assailed their showy titles with measureless derision; he said they were back-alley barbers disguised as nobilities, peanut peddlers masquerading as gentlemen, organ-grinders bereft of their brother monkey.
Puddnhead Wilson
He had released my arm and was standing rigid and motionless in the center of the illuminated roadway, staring like one bereft of sense.
Can Such Things Be
Soon after the marriage of the young people, the worthy doctor returned to Chertsey, where, bereft of the presence of his old friends, he would have been discontented if his temperament had admitted of such a feeling; and would have turned quite peevish if he had known how.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress
Bereft of his cake, defrauded of his frolic, and borne away by a strong hand to that detested bed, poor Demi could not restrain his wrath, but openly defied Papa, and kicked and screamed lustily all the way upstairs.
Little Women
Trapped, cheated, robbed, first by Ralph and then by Katharine, she seemed all dissolved in humiliation, and bereft of anything she could call her own.
Night and Day
One will pass all the hours of the night seated at the foot of some oak or rock, and there, without having closed his weeping eyes, the sun finds him in the morning bemused and bereft of sense; and another without relief or respite to his sighs, stretched on the burning sand in the full heat of the sultry summer noontide, makes his appeal to the compassionate heavens, and over one and the other, over these and all, the beautiful Marcela triumphs free and careless.
Don Quixote
Voyt's last word, however, was that there was just enough in it--in the theory--for them to allow that she had not shown herself, on the occasion of their talk, wholly bereft of sense.
Story of It
One and all, the faces of men and women seemed bereft of vitality, of interest, of thought, and, most of all, of hope.
Lair of the White Worm
He felt himself short of breath, and bereft of words.
The Malefactor
As a bailiff, when well authorized by his writ, having possessed himself of the person of some unhappy debtor, views all his tears without concern; in vain the wretched captive attempts to raise compassion; in vain the tender wife bereft of her companion, the little prattling boy, or frighted girl, are mentioned as inducements to reluctance.
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
'I am so unhappy, and all that should have made me otherwise is so laid waste, that if I had been bereft of sense to this hour, and instead of being as learned as you think me, had to begin to acquire the simplest truths, I could not want a guide to peace, contentment, honour, all the good of which I am quite devoid, more abjectly than I do.
Hard Times
Meanwhile, the bathrooms for other staffers at the ministry are bereft of even soaps and other basic toiletries, it is believed.
PTI sets new benchmark VVIP toilets
There are many alternative sites, bereft of biological diversity, like the semi-desert areas of Northern Kenya, where such a plant can be built.
Put up coal plant where residents won't be affected
North Korea has labelled Joe Biden a "fool of low IQ" and an "imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being" after the US presidential hopeful called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a tyrant during a recent speech.
Biden 'insult' creates tension; NORTH KOREA
Summary: Pyongyang [North Korea], May 22 (ANI): North Korea on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on former Vice President Joe Biden calling him a "snob bereft of elementary quality as a human being".
Biden a snob bereft of elementary quality as human being: North Korea