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REFT
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
Verb
reft
simple past tense and past participle of reave
Noun
reft (plural refts)
A chink; a rift.
Anagrams
• FRET, TERF, fret, terf, tref
Source: Wiktionary
Reft (rft), imp. & p. p. of Reave.
Definition: Bereft. Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn. Heber.
Reft, n.
Definition: A chink; a rift. See Rift. Rom. of R.
REAVE
Reave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaved, Reft (, or Raft ( (obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaving.] Etym: [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, 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
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