An archaic third-person singular present tense form meaning 'deprives' or 'robs,' especially of something precious or valued.
Variant of bereaves (from bereave), with double-r spelling. Third-person singular present tense, formed by adding -s to the verb stem. The variant spelling reflects historical English before modern spelling conventions.
This word shows how English verbs used to be super predictable—you just added -eth or -s to show who's doing the action. Now we mostly just add -s, but old poems still use bereaveth and similar forms for their fancy, archaic sound!
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