be bereaved

1) be bereaved; 2) childless; 3) barenness

be bereaved; be bereaved; make childless; cause barrenness; shew barrenness; abortion; miscarrying womb

properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)

bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, [idiom] expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.