Heaves vs Reaves - What's the difference?
heaves | reaves |
(colloquial) A period of retching.
A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing.
(heave)
(reave)
(archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
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* 1997 , Lawrence R. Schehr, Rendering French Realism (ISBN 0804780161), page 18:
(archaic) To split, tear, break apart.
As verbs the difference between heaves and reaves
is that heaves is (heave) while reaves is (reave).As a noun heaves
is .heaves
English
Noun
(head)- I have the dry heaves , I rather just throw up and get it over with.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*reaves
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *reave
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) reven, from (etyl) 'to roughen', Sanskrit (term) 'to make suffer'). See (m) and (m).Alternative forms
* reiveVerb
- 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.