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reave

reave [ reev ] (past and past participle reaved or reft [ reft ], present participle reav·ing, 3rd person present singular reaves)


transitive verb 
Definition:
 
1. take something forcibly: to plunder something or carry something off by force

2. deprive somebody: to rob somebody or deprive somebody of something

[ Old English rēafian. Ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic word that is also the ancestor of English rob]

reav·er noun
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