Reave

Word REAVE
Character 5
Hyphenation reave
Pronunciations /ɹiːv/

Definitions and meanings of "Reave"

What do we mean by reave?

To seize and carry off forcibly. intransitive verb

To deprive (one) of something; bereave. intransitive verb

To rob, plunder, or pillage. intransitive verb

To take away by force or stealth; carry off as booty; take violently; purloin, especially in a foray: with a thing as object.

To take away; remove; abstract; draw off.

To rob; plunder; dispossess; bereave: with a person as object.

To tear up, as the rafters or roof of a house.

To ravel; pull to pieces, as a textile fabric.

To practise plundering or pillaging; carry off stolen property.

To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. Archaic. transitive verb

To split, tear, break apart. verb

To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. verb

Steal goods; take as spoils verb

To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.

To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

Its when you see a weed field in a forest and you burn it using gasoline. You then escape by driving away on a motorcycle, transportation. Urban Dictionary

Another form of leave, get out, ect. Urban Dictionary

The King of all Kings, the job of a Hero for all Heros. The immortal one, the wealthiest one. Urban Dictionary

An adjective to describe something, someone or a situation that is very strange. Can also be used as a compliment. Urban Dictionary

To rob one of something very dear to them by force. Usually something that would leave the victim poor and waif like in the streets searching for food in dumptsers and meaning in life now that they are reaved, The act of "reaving" usually refers to 'soul reaving.' Souls can be reaved by pretty much any one person or diety that is stronger than its victim. Soul reaving is an irreversible process and souls cannot be returned without consent of the reaver. Urban Dictionary

A person who gives a good bj for any kind of drug Urban Dictionary

The creator of the youtube buddy, ding ding, and a bunch of other peaces of trash. He loves also tazing people. He also HATES turtles Urban Dictionary

Having a Ph.D., and being a college professor, but still never showing to class or giving a shit about anything. Urban Dictionary

Renowned grafitti artist from Tucson, Arizona. Urban Dictionary

A forward for the St. Louis Blues. He is the leader of the goon squad and never loses a fight. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Reave

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The word "reave" in example sentences

Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Duke University, 1956, p. 274; and Carter Papers: An Inventory .... ") [7] The word" reave "meant to rob or strip at Carter's time. ❋ Unknown (1728)

Lest for her like of garden scents he reave her,577 ❋ Unknown (2006)

What can I say, h-dog: I'm just not as impressed as you are by the guy who took his pique out on the poor innocent fig tree, and told me he came bringing not peace, but the sword, to reave apart families. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

And he can be very cavalier about rhythm, especially the fiery accents that make a dance out of 'Wilt thou unkind thus reave me'. ❋ Unknown (2006)

No queenly way for woman to practise, though peerless she, that the weaver-of-peace 76 from warrior dear by wrath and lying his life should reave! ❋ Unknown (2003)

This may not work, he cautioned himself I can but try to reave the power from the humans. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1991)

Our aim had only been to reave some more weapons, especially light portable ones for our men-atarms. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1960)

To force a spotless virgin's chastity, To reave the orphan of his patrimony, To wring the widow from her custom'd right, And have no other reason for this wrong. ❋ Unknown (1950)

Saint Kiaranus alone, reading beside his herds; and they thought to slay him and to reave his herds. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

At another time there came robbers to him when he was feeding the herds of his parents, wishing to slay him, so that they might the more easily reave what they would. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

In l. 10 I have substituted handle for reave of MS.: see note on reave, p. 101; and in l. 13, have hyphened God made flesh. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The two words reeve (pf. rove, —which is also a pf. of rive—) and reave (pf. reft) are both used several times by G.M. H., but they are both spelt reave. ❋ Unknown (1918)

No. 39 line 10 (the third passage where reeve, spelt reave, occurs, and a nautical meaning is required—see the note there—) would be satisfied by splice (nautical); and if this notion were influenced by weave, wove, that would describe the interweaving of the verses. ❋ Unknown (1918)

To thriftless reave both our rich round world bare ❋ Unknown (1918)

To escape their hands that seek to reave his life. ❋ Unknown (1909)

To slink thro 'slaps, an' reave an 'steal, [holes in fences] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

reave and retreave is different. This is when you [tear apart] something but in [the process] take possessions or "steal" from [the general] area. ❋ Reaving Is Tradition (2005)

"[Will you] [please] reave [my house] now, bitch." ❋ American Dictionary. (2008)

Did [your name] just [change] to Reaves? You should of [died] doing that. ❋ Jimdoors413 (2009)

"Dude, the other night was so Reav!" "Awww [Rummikub] you're so Reav." "I hate [Leila], she's [so so] Reav." "Look at this Reav costume." ❋ ReavReav1 (2009)

"I have come to [reave] your soul." "[Morgoth] the Terrible reaved the souls of all the [Gothmog] children in the land of the Valarion in the days when the Kurkim still roamed the land." ❋ Sheriff Nein (2005)

[Man] that reaves [over there] is [desperate] ❋ Bigbootywho (2009)

*Scream* [Ahhh] [no worries] it's just the local [crackhead]/micheal reaves. ❋ Mask05 (2020)

I don't feel like [getting up] today and taking care of my responsibilities as a professor, so I'm [pulling a Reaves] and just [staying in] bed while my students actually show up to class ❋ BK2485 (2011)

[Reav One's] sick [graffing] skillz can be seen all over the streets of [Az]. ❋ Werd Won (2006)

Ryan Reaves is [the best] [goon] in the [NHL]. ❋ Ikehylt (2016)

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