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Reave  v. t.  (past & past part. reft; pres. part. reaving)  To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. (Archaic). "To reave his life." "He golden apples raft of the dragon." "If the wooers reave By privy stratagem my life at home." "To reave the orphan of his patrimony." "The heathen caught and reft him of his tongue."





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"Reave" Quotes from Famous Books



... Began to comfort me in chearfull wise, And meanes of gladsome solace to devise. 20 But seeing kindly sleep refuse to doe His office, and my feeble eyes forgoe, They sought my troubled sense how to deceave With talke that might unquiet fancies reave; [Reave, take away.] And sitting all in seates about me round, 25 With pleasant tales fit for that idle stound [Stound, time.] They cast in course to waste the wearie howres. Some tolde of ladies, and their paramoures; ...
— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser
... friend meets friend, by Providence united * In greeny garden and in palmy maze: People of Cairo, and by Allah's doom * I fare, with you in thoughts I wone always! Whisper not Cairo in the ear of Zephyr, * Lest for her like of garden scents he reave her,[FN577] ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Reave" :   foray, take, strip, pillage, plunder, deplume, loot


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