reave en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ɹiːv/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English reven, from Old English rēafian, from Proto-West Germanic *raubōn. Germanic cognates include West Frisian rave, Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty”)), and Old English past participle rofen (“torn, broken”), Norwegian rjuva, German rauben, Danish røve, and Swedish röva. Outside of Germanic, related to Latin rumpō (“to break”), Lithuanian rùpti (“to roughen”), Sanskrit रोपयति (ropayati, “to make suffer”)). See rob and reif.
Meanings
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(archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
And I for one am not convinced of the innocence of the model: it is as if we let a criminal make up the law as he or she ambles along, reaving right and left.
1997, Lawrence R. Schehr, Rendering French Realism, →ISBN, page 18:
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(archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
Few of the chroniclers of Nero’s reign have been accurate when relating the situation that obtained between the Emperor and his mother from the time when, reft of her German and Pannonian guards, she lived in a more or less solitary rage on one estate or another.
1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rieve | alternative, archaic | lexicographic | |
| reaved | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| reaved | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| reft | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| reft | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| reaving | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| reive | alternative, archaic | lexicographic | |
| reaves | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
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Translations (28)
uk позбавляти (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.) · uk плюндрувати (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · pl ograbić (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · uk спустошувати (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · cmn 抢夺 (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · uk відбирати (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.) · ga creach (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · ru гра́бить (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · de rauben (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · pl plądrować (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · ru расхища́ть (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · cmn 抢走 (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.) · ru разоря́ть (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · bg ограбвам (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · pl okraść (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.) · pl splądrować (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · cmn 掠夺 (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · es robar (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · sv röva (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · cmn 偷走 (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.) · pl grabić (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · pl okradać (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.) · ar نَهْب بِالْإِعْتِدَاء (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · bg похищавам (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · nl roven (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · uk грабувати (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · ru опустоша́ть (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove) · cmn 夺走 (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.)