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Webster 1913 Edition

Reave

Reave

(rēv)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Reaved
(rēvd)
,
Reft
(rĕft)
, or
Raft
(rȧft)
(
obs.
);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Reaving
.]
[AS.
reáfian
, from
reáf
spoil, plunder, clothing,
reófan
to break (cf.
bireófan
to deprive of); akin to G.
rauben
to rob, Icel.
raufa
to rob,
rjūfa
to break, violate, Goth.
biráubōn
to despoil, L.
rumpere
to break; cf. Skr.
lup
to break. √114. Cf.
Bereave
,
Rob
,
Verb.
T.
,
Robe
,
Rove
,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare
The heathen caught and
reft
him of his tongue.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Reave

REAVE

,
Verb.
T.
To take away by stealth or violence; to bereave. Obs. [See Bereave.]

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