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Reft vs Reave - What's the difference?

reft | reave |

As verbs the difference between reft and reave

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

As a noun reft

is a chink; a rift.

reft

English

Verb

(head)
  • (reave)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A chink; a rift.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    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)