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Reave   Listen
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Reave  v. t.  (past & past part. reft; pres. part. reaving)  To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. (Archaic). "To reave his life." "He golden apples raft of the dragon." "If the wooers reave By privy stratagem my life at home." "To reave the orphan of his patrimony." "The heathen caught and reft him of his tongue."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Reave" Quotes from Famous Books



... of foot as is the pretty roe, Roe swift of pace: When yelping hounds pursue her to and fro, Hounds fierce in chase To reave her life. ...
— Tudor and Stuart Love Songs • Various



Words linked to "Reave" :   loot, ransack, plunder, pillage, displume, rifle, strip



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