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reave | reve |

As a verb reave

is to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.

As a noun reve is

obsolete form of nodot=true lang=en (local official).

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)

    reve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (local official).
    • (Piers Plowman)
  • * 14thC', , ''Prologue to the '''Reves Tale'', 1915, ''The College Chaucer , page 94,
    • Ne at this tale I saugh no man hym greve, / But it were oonly Osewold the Reve ;