REAVE
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
(verb) steal goods; take as spoils; “During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
reave (third-person singular simple present reaves, present participle reaving, simple past and past participle reft or reaved)
(archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
(archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
Etymology 2
Verb
reave (third-person singular simple present reaves, present participle reaving, simple past and past participle reft)
(archaic) To split, tear, break apart.
Source: Wiktionary
Reave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaved, Reft (, or Raft ( (obs.); p. pr. &
vb. n. Reaving.] Etym: [AS. reáfian, from reáf spoil, plunder,
clothing, reĂłfan to break (cf. bireĂłfan to deprive of); akin to G.
rauben to rob, Icel. raufa to rob, rjufa to break, violate, Goth.
biráubon to despoil, L. rumpere to break; cf. Skr. lup to break. sq.
root114. Cf. Bereave, Rob, v. t., Robe, Rove, v. t., Rupture.]
Definition: 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.
By privy stratagem my life at home. Chapman.
To reave the orphan of his patrimony. Shak.
The heaven caught and reft him of his tongue. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition