(v. t.) To make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away.
(v. t.) To take away from.
(v. t.) To take away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
(2) This paper describes the results of a survey on the form and function of hospice bereavement services completed by NHO Provider Member hospices.
(3) Establishing a bereavement program and outlining responsibilities for staff involvement are also addressed.
(4) Subjects antibody and complement functions were inhibited after bereavement.
(5) A bereavement during pregnancy is difficult to mourn: a pregnant woman is so increasingly preoccupied with the new life that mourning is interrupted and often impossible to resume later.
(6) This article reviews recent literature on bereavement concerning the typical features of both normal and pathological grief.
(7) Because both bereavement and depression have been associated with impaired immune responses, the authors studied two indicators of immune function, natural killer (NK) cell activity and measures of T cell subpopulations, in 37 women who differed in the magnitude of recent life events.
(8) The purpose of this study was to ascertain depressive symptoms in recently bereaved prepubertal children and compare these symptoms with those of depressed prepubertal children.
(9) No stranger to bereavement – on the last count I had lost 12 close friends and family members by the age of 35 – I’d endured so much loss that I had become blasé about death.
(10) Two bereaved groups of families (one of which received preventive intervention service) and one non-bereaved group were compared in an outcome design and were assessed for indices of illness, psycho-social disturbance, and general quality of life.
(11) In bereaved and severely depressed cancer patients, there is a tendency of an earlier onset of decreased natural killer cell activity and a reduced binding affinity of beta-endorphin to peripheral blood lymphocytes.
(12) Bereavement was mentioned in 28.2% of referrals from medical practitioners yet 43.1% of the patients had been bereaved and used bereavement counselling.
(13) All participants completed a sibling bereavement inventory consisting of 109 scaled items that measured self-concept perceptions and grief reactions.
(14) For a lot of people, leaving politics is a bereavement.” But for the time being, her politics will find expression in her standup, which is quite different from the early days.
(15) The focus of the inquiry was to determine whether attitudes towards death, dying and loss could be influenced by confrontation with factual information on bereavement.
(16) The physiological effects of stress, and the possible relationship to patients and their carers, leads the author to highlight the need for further research, and possible benefit of proactive intervention for the bereaved.
(17) These proportions were unaltered by the issue of a unit medical circular to hospital staff informing them of the problem and requesting more prompt notification.The ability of general practitioners to help bereaved relatives is compromised by the present inadequacies in communication between hospitals and general practice.
(18) The highest relative mortality risk was found immediately after bereavement.
(19) Results indicated that elderly persons with significant clinical depression at the time of a spouse's death were at significant risk for psychological complications during the bereavement process, and survivors of spouses who had committed suicide were even more at risk within the greatest depression group.
(20) 150 bereaved parents, all members of the organisation, of whom 120 (80%) participated voluntarily in the study.
Deprive
Definition:
(v. t.) To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
(v. t.) To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
(v. t.) To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(2) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(3) The level of significance of the statistical estimate of the change in the number of phonoreactive units (its increase due to deprivation) amounts to 92%.
(4) An experimental autoimmune model of nerve growth factor (NGF) deprivation has been used to assess the role of NGF in the development of various cell types in the nervous system.
(5) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
(6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(7) We measured 1,2-DG content and PKC activity in TSH-deprived growth-arrested cells when TSH was readded.
(8) After 8 days of starvation, there is a 25% decrease in the muscle protein, but after 8 days of protein deprivation, there is no significant change in the muscle mass.
(9) Amine metabolites, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA), and homovanillic acid (HVA) were not substantially affected by sleep deprivation, although there was a significant interaction of clinical response and direction of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) change.
(10) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
(11) Effects of l-glutamine deprivation on HVJ growth in several other cells were also investigated.
(12) Neurons in deprived puffs and interpuffs were generally similar in size to those in nondeprived regions, although CO-reactive cells were significantly smaller in the deprived puffs of monkeys enucleated for 28.5 or 60 wks.
(13) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(14) Glucose deprivation also inhibits N-linked glycosylation.
(15) Rhabdomeres are substantially smaller and visual pigment is nearly eliminated when Drosophila are carotenoid-deprived from egg to adult.
(16) This unbearable situation leads to panic and auto-sensory deprivation.
(17) Deprivation of pancreatic secretion did not induce significant variations of the pH pattern.
(18) The pharmacological examination showed that the new compounds are deprived of the hypnotic activity characteristic for 3,3'-spirobi-5-methyltetrahydrofuranone-2 (2) and behaved in most tests as tranquillizers.
(19) The injection of dDAVP alone had no effect on the rma of the PVN or PN, but dDAVP injection alone, water deprivation alone, or both treatments combined decreased the rma of the PD in Severe mice.
(20) The behavioral effects of phenytoin, phenobarbital, clonazepam, valproic acid, and ethosuximide were evaluated in food-deprived pigeons performing under automaintenance and negative automaintenance procedures.