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REAVE
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Irregular inflected form: reft
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Steal goods; take as spoils
Example:
During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
Synonyms:
despoil; foray; loot; pillage; plunder; ransack; reave; rifle; strip
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
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
