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Marauder vs Reave - What's the difference?

marauder | reave |

As a noun marauder

is someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.

As a verb reave is

(archaic) to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove or reave can be (archaic) to split, tear, break apart.

marauder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
  • A band of outlaws who raid and pillage.
  • By extension anything which marauds.

    • 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)