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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Reave  \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.




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