bereft vs downcast

bereft

adj
  • Pained by the loss of someone. 

  • Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of. 

downcast

adj
  • Feeling despondent. 

  • Looking downwards. 

verb
  • To cast from supertype to subtype. 

  • To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. 

noun
  • A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. 

  • A cast from supertype to subtype. 

How often have the words bereft and downcast occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )