bereaving

verb

present participle of bereave
as in depriving
to take something away from news of a death in the family bereaved them of the unmitigated joy that normally prevails at a wedding

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  1. depriving
  2. stripping
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  • Some employees also owe their employers a deeper fiduciary duty, which one court has described as the duty to protect the employer’s interests and to avoid injuring the employer or depriving the employer of the employee’s skills.
    — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • Extreme heat is already a headache for many data centers, raising the chances electricity will go away, depriving customers of their sweet, sweet AI.
    — Mark Gongloff, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
Definition of depriving
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  • The internet casually scrambles basic ideas of personhood, reframing people as commodities and stripping us for parts.
    — Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026
  • The Eye network served as lead broadcaster for the VMAs this year — stripping an already barren MTV of its flagship event.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 July 2026
Definition of stripping
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