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Definition of Reave
1. Verb. Steal goods; take as spoils. "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
Generic synonyms: Take
Specialized synonyms: Deplume, Displume
Derivative terms: Despoiler, Despoilment, Despoliation, Loot, Looter, Looting, Pillage, Pillager, Pillaging, Plunder, Plunderer, Plundering
Definition of Reave
1. v. t. To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]
Definition of Reave
1. Verb. (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. ¹
2. Verb. (archaic) To split, tear, break apart. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reave
1. to plunder [v REAVED or REFT, REAVING, REAVES] - See also: plunder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reave
Literary usage of Reave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... Not then to fortune more resigned Than yonder oak might give the wind; The
graceful foliage storms may reave, 170 The noble stem they cannot grieve. ..."
2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"L. re-, back ; fugere, to flee ; see Fugitive. Reft, pp. of reave ; see reave.
refugee. .... reave."
3. The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911)
"... and Wealth the vine, Stanch and strong the tendrils twine: Though the frail
ringlets thee deceive, None from its stock that vine can reave.1 Fear not, ..."
4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Who to-day Britons leads ; all hurl their javelins, Greedy to reave his life.
With thick pressed shields, Those rush, then, in to take the prince, alive. ..."
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