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REAVE (reft)

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Dictionary entry overview: What does reave mean?

• REAVE (verb)
The verb REAVE has 1 sense:

1. steal goods; take as spoils

Familiarity information: REAVE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• REAVE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Steal goods; take as spoils

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

despoil; foray; pillage; ransack; reave; rifle; loot; plunder; strip

Context example:

During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners

Hypernyms (to "reave" is one way to...):

take (take by force)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reave"):

deplume; displume (strip of honors, possessions, or attributes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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