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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8124116" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>The below definition is from the Oxford English Dictionary, UK version. </p><p></p><p>CITE: reave. Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. <a href="https://premium.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/reave" target="_blank">Log in to your Oxford Dictionaries account</a> (accessed November 11, 2020).</p><p></p><p></p><p>I didn't discern any difference in the definitions in the US version, so I'm just including the UK version as they seem to be same.</p><p></p><h3>Definition of <em>reave</em> in English:</h3><p></p><h3>reave</h3><p>Pronunciation: /riːv/</p><h3>VERB (past and past participle reft / /rɛft//)</h3><p><em>[NO OBJECT]</em> <em>archaic</em></p><p>1Carry out raids in order to plunder:<em>the strong could reave and steal</em></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">To slink thro' slaps, an' reave an' steal, At stacks o' pease, or stocks o' kail!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As their gods were, so their laws were; Thor the strong could reave and steal.</li> </ul><p>1.1<em>[WITH OBJECT]</em>Rob (a person or place) of something by force:<em>reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast</em></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In silencing my power, I am reft of half my being!</li> </ul><p>1.2<em>[WITH OBJECT]</em>Steal (something).</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Were you planning to escort me to my chambers, or have all your chivalrous faculties been reft from you?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Helen, symbolizing perfect beauty as produced by Greek art, is recalled from Hades and ardently pursued by Faust, but finally reft from him.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">‘What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee,’ said Pound.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Go reave me some loots.</li> </ul><h3>Derivatives</h3><h4>reaver</h4><p>NOUN</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Not in our lands; these are claimed for one and one only, not reavers such as thee!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What shall a young reaver do but spend his coins like the snake sips water?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The great-handed reaver felt a hot scar tear across his cheeks and the bitter salt-welling of blood whet his lips and nostrils.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As a mercenary and reaver he should not have any qualms as the gold trickled into his pockets, the gold of blood-letting.</li> </ul><h3>Origin</h3><p>Old English<em>rēafian</em>, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch <em>roven</em>, German <em>rauben</em>, also to <a href="https://premium.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/rob" target="_blank">rob</a>. See also <a href="https://premium.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/reive" target="_blank">reive</a>.</p><h3>Words that rhyme with reave</h3><p>achieve, believe, breve, cleave, conceive, deceive, eve, greave, grieve, heave, interleave, interweave, khedive, leave, misconceive, naive, Neve, peeve, perceive, receive, reive, relieve, reprieve, retrieve, sheave, sleeve, steeve, Steve, Tananarive, Tel Aviv, thieve, underachieve, upheave, weave, we've, Yves</p><h3>For editors and proofreaders</h3><p>Line breaks: reave</p></blockquote><p></p>

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