Reave

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To seize and carry off forcibly.
  • v. To deprive (one) of something; bereave.
  • verb-intransitive. To rob, plunder, or pillage.
  • v. Archaic To break or tear apart.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
  • v. To split, tear, break apart.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic].
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To take away by force or stealth; carry off as booty; take violently; purloin, especially in a foray: with a thing as object.
  • To take away; remove; abstract; draw off.
  • To rob; plunder; dispossess; bereave: with a person as object.
  • To tear up, as the rafters or roof of a house.
  • To ravel; pull to pieces, as a textile fabric.
  • To practise plundering or pillaging; carry off stolen property.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. steal goods; take as spoils
  • Verb Form
    reaved    reaves    reaving    reft   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    reft   
    Form
    reaved    reft    raft    reaving    border reivers   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rob    despoil    plunder    deprive    take   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Eve    Kleve    Neave    Rajiv    Steve    achieve    aggrieve    aleve    believe    bereave