reave

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  1. transitive verb To seize and carry off forcibly.
  2. transitive verb To deprive (one) of something; bereave.
  3. intransitive verb To rob, plunder, or pillage.
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  • Three, they are totally unaccountable to anyone for their reave mistakes. —  The First Perspective
  • "WOW!!! maybe next they can actually bring back system shock and you can play as a cortex reave ..." —  *Shacknews* Games
  • Well, the folks elected me a hog-reave, jist to poke fun at me, and Mr. Jehiel, a bean pole of a lawyer, was at the bottom of it. —  The Clockmaker
  • Well, the folks elected me a hog-reave, jist to poke fun at me, and Mr. Jehiel, —  The Clockmaker
  • Sith > Since reave > forcibly remove, take —  The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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  1. Middle English reven, to plunder, from Old English rēafian; see reup- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English reven, possibly alteration (influenced by reven, to plunder) of Old Norse rīfa, to rive.

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  1. Early modern English also reve, reeve (Scots reive, etc.), dial. rave; from Middle English reven (preterit revede, reved, refde, rafte, refte, past participle raft, reft), from Anglo-Saxon reáfian, rob, spoil, plunder, =Old Saxon *rōbhōn (in comp. bi-rōbhōn) =OFries. rāvia, rāva =D. rooven =Middle Low German Low German roven =Old High German roubōn, Middle High German rouben, German rauben, rob, deprive, =Icelandic raufa =Swedish röfva =Danish röve, rob, =Gothic (Moesogothic) *raubōn, in comp. bi-raubon, rob, spoil; a secondary verb associated with the noun, Anglo-Saxon reáf, spoil, plunder, especially clothing or armor taken as spoil, hence clothing in general, =OFries. rāf =D. roof =Middle Low German rōf =Old High German roub, roup, raup, Middle High German roup, German raub =Icelandic rauf =Swedish rof =Danish rov, spoil, plunder (see reaf); from the primitive verb, Anglo-Saxon *reófan, in comp. be-reófan, bi-reófan, deprive, =Icelandic rjúfa (past participle rofinn), break, rip, violate, =L. rumpere (√ rup). break: see rupture. Hence, in comp., bereave. From the Teutonic are Italian ruba, spoil, etc., rubare, spoil, =Old French rober, robber, rob, whence English rob, etc.; Italian roba =Old French (and F.) robe, garment, robe, whence English robe, rubble, rubbish: see robe and rob. From the D. form are English rove, rover.
 

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