reave
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Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#REAVECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *Hrewp-#REAVEFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#REAVECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#REAVE reven, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#REAVECategory:English terms derived from Old English#REAVE rēafian, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#REAVECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#REAVE *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.
Verb
reave (third-person singular simple present reaves, present participle reaving, simple past and past participle reaved or reft)Category:English lemmas#REAVECategory:English verbs#REAVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#REAVECategory:Pages with entries#REAVECategory:Pages with 2 entries#REAVE
- (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#REAVE) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
- 1997, Lawrence R. Schehr, Rendering French Realism, →ISBN, page 18:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#REAVE
- (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#REAVE) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#REAVE
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Etymology 2
Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.
Verb
reave (third-person singular simple present reaves, present participle reaving, simple past and past participle reft)Category:English lemmas#REAVECategory:English verbs#REAVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#REAVECategory:Pages with entries#REAVECategory:Pages with 2 entries#REAVE
- (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#REAVE) To split, tear, break apart.
- 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- There was the same enforced composure on her face, that there had been when she was dressing; and the wreath upon her head encircled the same cold and steady brow. But it would have been better to have seen its leaves and flowers reft into fragments by her passionate hand, […]Category:English terms with quotations#REAVE
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reaveCategory:Middle English alternative forms#REAVECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#REAVECategory:Pages with entries#REAVECategory:Pages with 2 entries#REAVE
- (Early Middle EnglishCategory:Early Middle English#REAVE) alternative form of reven