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bereave

How many syllables in bereave?

  2 syllables

Divide bereave into syllables:   be-reave
Stressed syllable in bereave:   be-reave
How to pronounce bereave:   bih-reev
How to say bereave:

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What rhymes with bereave

1 syllable
  • breve
  • cleave
  • eave
  • gleave
  • greaved
  • grieve
  • leave
  • naeve
  • peeve's
  • reeve
  • shrend
  • Steve
  • we've
  • breves
  • cleve
  • eve
  • greave
  • greve
  • heave
  • leve
  • peeve
  • reave
  • shreeve
  • sleeve
  • vive
  • weave
2 syllables
  • Abib
  • aggrieve
  • believe
  • conceive
  • French leave
  • Geneve
  • inweave
  • motive
  • neve
  • pet peeve
  • qui vive
  • reaved
  • relieve
  • retrieve
  • shore leave
  • unreeve
  • upheave
3 syllables
4 syllables
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