(verb) : orbo, āvi, ātum, 1, orbus
* To deprive or bereave of parents, children, or other dear persons; to make fatherless, motherless, childless, etc. (class.; syn.: privo, viduo).
* Lit.: filio orbatus,Cic. Off. 1, 10, 30: mater orbata filio,id. Clu. 15, 45: orbatura patres fulmina,Ov. M. 2, 391.—Of animals: catulo lactente orbata leaena,Ov. M. 13, 547.
* Transf., in gen., to deprive, bereave, strip of any (esp. a precious) thing: pater me lumine orbavit, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 250 P. (Trag. v. 351 Vahl.): Italiam juventute,Cic. Pis. 24, 57: patria multis claris viris orbata,id. Fam. 4, 9, 3: sensibus,id. Ac. 2, 23, 74: tantā gloriā orbatus,id. Tusc. 1, 6, 12: ferum voce eruditā spoliatum atque orbatum,id. Brut. 2, 6.—Poet.: orbatae caligant vela carinae,Stat. S. 5, 3, 138.

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