reave

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From Middle English reven, from Old English rēafian, from Proto-West Germanic *raubōn. Germanic cognates include West Frisian rave, Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty”)), and Old English past participle rofen (“torn, broken”), Norwegian rjuva, German rauben, Danish røve, and Swedish röva. Outside of Germanic, related to Latin rumpō (“to break”), Lithuanian rùpti (“to roughen”), Sanskrit रोपयति (ropayati, “to make suffer”)). See rob and reif.

Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.

28 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: نَهْب بِالْإِعْتِدَاء (nahb bi-l-ʔiʕtidāʔ) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Bulgarian: ограбвам (ograbvam) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Bulgarian: похищавам (pohištavam) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Chinese Mandarin: 掠夺 (luèduó) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Chinese Mandarin: 抢夺 (qiǎngduó) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Dutch: roven — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• German: rauben — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Irish: creach — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Polish: grabić — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Polish: ograbić — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Polish: plądrować — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Polish: splądrować — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Russian: гра́бить (grábitʹ) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Russian: опустоша́ть (opustošátʹ) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Russian: разоря́ть (razorjátʹ) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Russian: расхища́ть (rasxiščátʹ) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Spanish: robar — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Swedish: röva — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Ukrainian: грабувати (hrabuvaty) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Ukrainian: плюндрувати (pljundruvaty) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Ukrainian: спустошувати (spustošuvaty) — to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove
• Chinese Mandarin: 抢走 (qiǎngzǒu) — to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
• Chinese Mandarin: 夺走 (duózǒu) — to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
• Chinese Mandarin: 偷走 (touzǒu) — to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
• Polish: okradać — to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
• Polish: okraść — to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
• Ukrainian: позбавляти (pozbavljaty) — to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
• Ukrainian: відбирати (vidbyraty) — to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.