Reave

Definition: Reave

Reave

Verb

1. Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reave" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Reave \Reave\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Reaved, Reft, or Raft (Obsolete); present participle verb or noun Reaving.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Reave

Taking

Take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave.

Crosswords: Reave

Books

• Reave the Just and Other Tales (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

rrëmbej (collar, denude, deplume, derogate, despoil, extort, flick out, grab, hijack, jump, rape, ravish, reive, whip, whip up, wrest), shkretoj (desolate, devastate, impoverish, overrun, reive), i marr (denude, detract, divest, reive), i heq (deprive, detract, disappoint, displume, dispossess, divest, reive), humbas (drop, lose, Miss, miss out on, reive, waste), grabit (amputate, depredate, deprive, despoil, flay, fleece, loot, rabble, ransack, Raven, ravish, reive, rent, rip off, Rob, sack, subtract). (various references)

Bulgarian 

грабя (depredate, despoil, pirate, plunder, ravage, reive, sack, spoil), отвличам (abduct, abstract, call off, carry off, distract, divert, hijack, kidnap, snatch away, steal away, take away, turn off). (various references)

Farsi 

غارت کردن (Gut, Harrow, Harry, Maraud, Pillage, Plunder, Ransack, Ravage, Raven, Spoil, Spoliate), ترکیدن (Blow, Blowout, Burst, Crack, Dehisce, Explode, Pop, Rive, Rupture), ربودن (Abduct, Abstract, Bag, Betake, Get, Grab, Hook, Purloin, Ravish, Rob, Snatch, Steal, Usurp), بزوربردن . (various references)

Hungarian

kifoszt (despoil, plunder, raid, ransack, reive, to burglarize, to despoil, to fleece, to foray, to gut, to harry, to hijack, to loot, to pill, to plunder, to raid, to ransack, to rifle, to rob, to skin, to spoil), feldúl (Harry, reive, to devastate, to forage, to harry, to ravage, to upset, to waste, upset). (various references)

Pig Latin

eaveray

Portuguese

saquear (clear out, depredate, devastate, foray, Harry, loo-table, maraud, pillage, pillar, plunderage, price, ravage, Raven, reive, rifle, sack), pilhar (depredate, despoil, forage, foray, Harry, loot, marauder, pillage, plunder, prey upon, ravage, Raven, reive, rifle, Rob), devastar (depredate, desolate, devastate, devour, forage, Harrow, Harry, haw, lay by, mow, overrun, prey upon, pull about, punish, ravage, reive, waste), destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, destroy, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat crow, end, explode, extinguish, finished, havoc, impaired, kill the goose that lays golden eggs, mine, obliteration, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, to kill, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), assolar (depredate, desolate, destroy, devastate, Harry, havoc, infestation, lay waste, ravage, reive, waste), arruinar (blight, break, crack, decay, demolish, depredate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, fling, injure, Mar, mine, puncture, ravage, reive, ruin, spoil, undo, unmake, waste). (various references)

Romanian

prãda (despoil, flay, fleece, gut, knock off, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, ransack, Raven, Rob, ruin, sack, spoil), jefui (burgle, flay, fleece, Harry, knock off, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, prey, ransack, Raven, Rob, scathe, spoil), fura (abstract, crib, defalcate, embezzle, filch, hook, kidnap, knock off, lift, make away with, nibble, nim, pick pockets, pilfer, pill, pinch, plagiarize, poach, prig, purloin, Raven, snake, steal, thieve), devasta (desolate, devastate, forage, foray, gut, havoc, lay waste, play among havoc, play with havoc, ravage, Rob, rummage, sack, wear away). (various references)

Russian 

грабить (depredate, despoil, loot, pill, pillage, plunder, prey, prey upon, ramp, ransack, ravish, reive, robbing, sack), отнимать (abstract, amputate, deprive, reive, strip, subtract, take away), опустошать (decimate, deplenish, depredate, devastate, gut, havoc, lay waste, overrun, ravage, reive, scourges), лишать (abridge, bereave, debar from, denude, deprive, divest, mulct, reive), похищать (abduct, carry off, kidnap, rape, reive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pleniti (plunder), otimati (plunder, reive, rob). (various references)

Spanish

raptar (abduct, hijack, kidnap, rape, Raven, ravish, reive), saquear (loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, reive, sack), privar (abridge, bereave, deny, deprive, detract, forbid, obtain, reive, rob, shear). (various references)

Swedish

röva bort (abduct, kidnap, pillage, ravish). (various references)

Turkish

zorla almak (exact, extort, grab, rape, Rob, snatch, squeeze, usurp, wrench, wrench smth. away from smb., wrench smth. from smb., wrest, wring), zaptetmek (bridle, capture, contain, govern, hold back, hold down, hold in, keep down, possess oneself of, seize, stifle, subjugate, suppress, swallow), yağmalamak (despoil, forage, foray, Harry, loot, maraud, pillage, pirate, pluck, plunder, prey on, prey upon, put to the sack, Raven, sack, spoliate, sweep down on). (various references)

Ukranian 

спустошувати (bare, decimate, deplenish, deplete, depredate, desolate, devastate, foray, gut, havoc, lay waste, overrun, play havoc, ravage, reive, waste), відторгати, викрадати (carry off, ravish, steal), позбавляти (abridge, bare, denude, deprive, despoil, divest, oust, purge, release). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "reave": reaved, reaver, reavers, reaves. (additional references)

Words ending with "reave": bereave, greave. (additional references)

Words containing "reave": bereaved, bereavement, bereavements, bereaver, bereavers, bereaves, greaved, greaves, preaver, preaverred, preaverring, preavers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aver, eave, ever, rave, veer, vera.

-2 letters: are, ave, ear, era, ere, eve, ree, rev, var, vee.

-3 letters: ae, ar, er, re.

+1 letter: averse, beaver, evader, greave, heaver, laveer, leaver, pareve, reaved, reaver, reaves, regave, repave, reveal, vealer, weaver.

+2 letters: adverse, avenger, average, averred, averted, beavers, behaver, bereave, cleaver, deprave, engrave, evaders, greaved, greaves, havered, haverel, heavers, heavier, laveers, leavers, leavier, nervate, overage, overate, overawe, overeat, oversea, pervade, preaver, raveled, raveler, ravened, ravener, reavers, repaved, repaves, reshave, revalue, reveals, reweave, several, vealers, vealier, verbena, veteran, wavered, waverer, weavers.

+3 letters: acervate, achiever, adverted, aggrieve, antevert, avengers, averaged, averages, averment, aversely, aversive, beavered, behavers, bereaved, bereaver, bereaves, beverage, caverned, cervelas, cervelat, chivaree, clavered, cleavers, coverage, cravened, creative, crevalle, crevasse, depraved, depraver, depraves, derivate, deverbal, elevator, endeavor, enervate, engraved, engraver, engraves, enslaver, ergative, everyday, everyman, everyway, graveled, haverels, laveered, lavender, levanter, leverage, levirate, makeover, maneuver, marveled, ovenware, overable, overaged, overages, overawed, overawes, overbake, overbear, overbeat, overcame, overdare, overdear, overeasy, overeats, overfear, overhate, overhead, overheap, overhear, overheat, overlade, overlate, overleaf, overleap, overnear, overneat, overrate, oversale, oversave, overseas, overtake, overtame, overweak, overwear, overzeal, parvenue, pervaded, pervader, pervades, preavers, precavae, quavered, quaverer, ravelers, ravelled, raveller, raveners, reactive, reavowed, reinvade, relative, relevant, renovate, reshaved, reshaven, reshaves, revalued, revalues, revamped, revamper, revanche, revealed, revealer, revenant, revenual, reversal, reviewal, reweaved, reweaves, servable, severals, shivaree, slavered, slaverer, takeover, taverner, traveled, traveler, traverse, upheaver, valerate, velarize, venerate, venereal, verbenas, verbiage, vernacle, verrucae, verseman, vertebra, vesperal, veterans, waverers, whatever.

+4 letters: accretive, achievers, adventure, adversely, advertent, advertise, advertize, aggrieved, aggrieves, anteverts, assertive, averagely, averments, beavering, bereavers, bereaving, beverages, braveries, breakeven, caregiver, caressive, cervelats, chevalier, chivareed, chivarees, confervae, coverable, coverages, crevalles, crevassed, crevasses, daredevil, denervate, depravers, derivable, derivates, driveable, eavesdrop, echeveria, elevators, embracive, endeavors, endeavour, enervated, enervates, engravers, enslavers, evaporate, evaporite, everglade, extravert, grapevine, graveless, gravelled, graveness, graveside, grievance, harvested, harvester, innervate, intervale, invertase, iterative, knaveries, lavaliere, laveering, lavenders, levanters, levatores, leveraged, leverages, levirates, lifesaver, makeovers, maneuvers, manoeuvre, marvelled, operative, ovenwares, overacted, overalert, overalled, overbaked, overbakes, overbears, overbeats, overclean, overclear, overdared, overdares, overeager, overeaten, overeater, overfears, overglaze, overgraze, overhated, overhates, overheads, overheaps, overheard, overhears, overheats, overladed, overladen, overlades, overlarge, overleaps, overleapt, overlearn, overpedal, overrated, overrates, overreach, overreact, oversales, oversauce, oversaved, oversaves, overscale, overstate, overtaken, overtakes, overtaxed, overtaxes, overtrade, overtreat, overvalue, overwater, overwears, overweary, overzeals, palavered, paloverde, parvenues, pervaders, pervasive, pretravel, prevailed, prevalent, preverbal, previable, privateer, quaverers, ravellers, ravelment, reapprove, reavailed, reengrave, reinvaded, reinvades, relatives, relevance, relevancy, removable, renovated, renovates, reprieval, retrieval, revaluate, revampers, revanches, revealers, revealing, revelator, revenants, reversals, revertant, reviewals, revisable, revivable, revocable, revokable, reweaving, scavenger, severable, severally, severalty, severance, shivareed, shivarees, slaverers, slaveries, superwave, takeovers, taverners, tervalent, timesaver, travelers, travelled, traveller, traversed, traverser, traverses, unaverage, unraveled, upheavers, valerates, variegate, varieties, velarized, velarizes, venerable, venerably, venerated, venerates, venerator, venireman, verandaed, veratrine, verbalize, verbiages, verglases, veritable, veritates, vernacles, vernalize, versatile, vertebrae, vertebral, vertebras, vesperals, viceregal, vinegared, vizierate.

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