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Reaved

Reave \Reave\ (r[=e]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaved (r[=e]vd), Reft (r[e^]ft), or Raft (r[.a]ft) (obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaving.] [AS. re['a]fian, from re['a]f spoil, plunder, clothing, re['o]fan to break (cf. bire['o]fan to deprive of); akin to G. rauben to rob, Icel. raufa to rob, rj[=u]fa to break, violate, Goth. bir['a]ub[=o]n to despoil, L. rumpere to break; cf. Skr. lup to break. [root]114. Cf. Bereave, Rob, v. t., Robe, Rove, v. i., Rupture.] To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. ``To reave his life.''
--Spenser.

He golden apples raft of the dragon.
--Chaucer.

If the wooers reave By privy stratagem my life at home.
--Chapman.

To reave the orphan of his patrimony.
--Shak.

The heathen caught and reft him of his tongue.
--Tennyson.

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reaved

vb. (en-past of: reave)

Usage examples of "reaved".

And also, they bought booty: goods reaved from the northern cities by the Vai in their raids.

He was clad as a chieftain might be clad: feathers in hair, heavy gold armbands, a vest of richest byssus — reaved, no doubt, from a northern city — and a staff in one hand, a staff adorned with the mummified heads of small animals.

Madness reigned at the death of a mad dream, and the cold strength of his fury was all that reaved the shackles of insanity.

Many can think craftily, like the female who reaved your holdings, Rolf Mariner.

Those were reaved through block-and-tackle at the outer lip of the position, in turn fastened to treetrunks driven deep into the soil.