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–verb (used with object), reaved or reft, reav·ing. Archaic.

to take away by or as by force; plunder; rob.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME reven, OE réafian; c. G rauben, D roven to rob

]

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–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), reaved or reft, reav·ing.

Archaic. to rend; break; tear.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME; appar. special use of reave¹ (by assoc. with rive)

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reave¹ Audio Help   (rēv) Pronunciation Key
v.   reaved or reft (rěft), reav·ing, reaves Archaic

v.   tr.

To seize and carry off forcibly.
To deprive (one) of something; bereave.

v. intr.
To rob, plunder, or pillage.

[Middle English reven, to plunder, from Old English rēafian; see reup- in Indo-European roots.]

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reave² Audio Help (rēv) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. reaved or reft (rěft), reav·ing, reaves Archaic
To break or tear apart.

[Middle English reven, possibly alteration (influenced by reven, to plunder) of Old Norse rīfa, to rive.]

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reave
verb
steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder]

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Raft\, obs. imp. & p. p. of Reave. --Spenser.

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Raf"te\, obs. imp. of Reave. --Chaucer.

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Reave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaved, Reft, or Raft(obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaving.] [AS. re['a]fian, from re['a]f spoil, plunder, clothing, re['o]fan to break (cf. bire['o]fan to deprive of); akin to G. rauben to rob, Icel. raufa to rob, rj[=u]fa to break, violate, Goth. bir['a]ubon to despoil, L. rumpere to break; cf. Skr. lup to break. [root]114. Cf. Bereave, Rob, v. t., Robe, Rove, v. t., Rupture.] 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.

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Reft\ (r?ft), imp. & p. p. of Reave. Bereft.

Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn. --Heber.

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Rief\, n. [See Reave.] Robbery. [Obs. or Scot.]

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Rob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Robbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Robbing.] [OF. rober, of German origin; cf. OHG. roub?n, G. rauben, and OHG. roub robbing, booty, G. raub. [root]114. See Reave,and cf. Robe.]

1. To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.

Who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish? --Milton.

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. --Shak.

To be executed for robbing a church. --Shak.

2. (Law) To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear.

3. To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight.

I never robbed the soldiers of their pay. --Shak.

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Rout\, n. [OF. route, LL. rupta, properly, a breaking, fr. L. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break. See Rupture, reave, and cf. Rote repetition of forms, Route. In some senses this word has been confused with rout a bellowing, an uproar.] [Formerly spelled also route.]

1. A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] "A route of ratones [rats]." --Piers Plowman. "A great solemn route." --Chaucer.

And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. --Chaucer.

A rout of people there assembled were. --Spenser.

2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.

the endless routs of wretched thralls. --Spenser.

The ringleader and head of all this rout. --Shak.

Nor do I name of men the common rout. --Milton.

3. The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.

thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. --Daniel.

To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. --pope.

4. (Law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof. --Wharton.

5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. "At routs and dances." --Landor.

To put to rout, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.

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Rove\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roved; p. pr. & vb. n. Roving.] [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E. reave. See Reave, Rob.]

1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.] --Hakluyt.

2. Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.

For who has power to walk has power to rove. --Arbuthnot.

3. (Archery) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).

Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove. --Spenser.

Syn: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.

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Rup"ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. ruptura, fr. rumpere, ruptum to break: cf. F. rupture. See Reave, and cf. Rout a defeat.]

1. The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring. --Arbuthnot.

Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. --Milton.

2. Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.

He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family. --E. Everett.

3. (Med.) Hernia. See Hernia.

4. A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.

Modulus of rupture. (Engin.) See under Modulus.

Syn: Fracture; breach; break; burst; disruption; dissolution. See Fracture.

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