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Reaves vs Roaves - What's the difference?

reaves | roaves |

As verbs the difference between reaves and roaves

is that reaves is (reave) while roaves is (roave).

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
    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)

    roaves

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (roave)

    • roave

    English

    Verb

    (roav)
  • * (1673)
    • Licence they mean when they cry libertie;
    For who loves that, must first be wise and good;
    But from that mark how far they roave we see
    For all this wast of wealth, and loss of blood.