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Dreave vs Reave - What's the difference?

dreave | reave |

As verbs the difference between dreave and reave

is that dreave is to drive; drive out; drive away; expel while reave is (archaic) to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove or reave can be (archaic) to split, tear, break apart.

As a noun dreave

is a drove.

dreave

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dreven, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

  • To drive; drive out; drive away; expel.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) draf, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drove.
  • A crowd or throng of people.
  • The yearly herring fishing.
  • A shoal of fish; a catch.

    • reave

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) reven, from (etyl) 'to roughen', Sanskrit (term) 'to make suffer'). See (m) and (m).

    Alternative forms

    * reive

    Verb

  • (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
  • *
  • * 1997 , Lawrence R. Schehr, Rendering French Realism (ISBN 0804780161), 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.
    Derived terms
    * border reivers
    Related terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.

    Verb

  • (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.
    • Related terms
    * (l)