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| reave [ reev ] (past and past participle reaved or reft [ reft ], present participle reav·ing, 3rd person present singular reaves) |
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1. take something forcibly: to plunder something or carry something off by force
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2. deprive somebody: to rob somebody or deprive somebody of something
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| [ Old English rēafian. Ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic word that is also the ancestor of English rob] |
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 reav·er noun |
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