different between bereave vs beleave

English

Etymology

From Middle English bireven, from Old English ber?afian (“to bereave, deprive of, take away, seize, rob, despoil”), from Proto-Germanic *biraub?n?, and Old English ber?ofan (“to bereave, deprive, rob of”); both equivalent to be- +? reave. Cognate with Dutch beroven (“to rob, deprive, bereave”), German berauben (“to deprive, rob, bereave”), Danish berøve (“to deprive of”), Norwegian berove (“to deprive”), Swedish beröva (“to rob”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (biraub?n).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /b???i?v/
• Rhymes: -i?v

Verb

bereave (third-person singular simple present bereaves, present participle bereaving, simple past and past participle bereaved or bereft)

1. (transitive) To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim.
   • 1719, Thomas Tickell, On the Death of Mr. Addison

     bereft of him who taught me how to sing

2. (transitive, obsolete) To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.
3. (transitive) To deprive of power; prevent.
4. (transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.

5. (intransitive, rare) To destroy life; cut off.

Derived terms

• bereavement
• bereaver

Related terms

• reave

Translations

English

Etymology

A merger of two Middle English verbs:

• beleven, from Old English bel?fan (“to leave, let remain”), from Proto-Germanic *bilaibijan?. Equivalent to be- +? leave.
• bliven, beliven (“to remain, stay”), from Old English bel?fan (“to remain”), from Proto-Germanic *bil?ban?. Hence belive (Etymology 1).

Verb

beleave (third-person singular simple present beleaves, present participle beleaving, simple past and past participle beleft)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To leave behind, abandon.

   Synonyms: desert, forsake; see also Thesaurus:abandon

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be left; to remain.

   Synonyms: continue, stay; see also Thesaurus:remain

Anagrams

• leave be

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English bileve.

Noun

beleave

1. belief

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN