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Reave vs Resave - What's the difference?

reave | resave |

As verbs the difference between reave and resave

is that reave is (archaic) to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove or reave can be (archaic) to split, tear, break apart while resave is to save again.

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)

    resave

    English

    Verb

    (resav)
  • to save again.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 27, author=J.D. Biersdorfer, title=Missing Photos on the BlackBerry, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Before you resize and resave a bunch of files at once, try this procedure on just one contact photo first to see if it fixes the problem. }}

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