Definition of "bereavements" [bereavements]

• Plural form of bereavement. (noun)

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• "Jan had suffered on occasion from severe depression brought on by her own ill health, a series of bereavements of close relatives, and overwork at her university, but these depressions never amounted to a psychosis."
• "John, who had a string of family bereavements – including the deaths of James, his baby son from a previous relationship, and that of his father – before he met Jessica, has been in an especially fragile state since the death at birth of the couple's daughter, Meadow."
• "Biddy, wise with previous bitter bereavements, had sat down on the edge of the sand, her fore-feet in the water, and was mouthing her woe."