What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Heaves vs Reaves - What's the difference?

heaves | reaves |

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)
  • (colloquial) A period of retching.
  • I have the dry heaves , I rather just throw up and get it over with.
  • A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (heave)
  • Anagrams

    *

    reaves

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reave)
  • Anagrams

    * * *

    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

    Etymology 2

    Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.

    Verb

  • (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.