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reave 音標拼音: [r'iv] vt.
vi. 剝奪,搶走 剝奪,搶走 reave v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; " During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [ synonym: { plunder}, { despoil}, { loot}, { reave}, { strip}, { rifle}, { ransack}, { pillage}, { foray}] Reave \ Reave\ ( r[= e] v), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Reaved} ( r[= e] vd), { Reft} ( r[ e^] ft), or { Raft} ( r[. a] ft) ( 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] ub[= o] n to despoil, L. rumpere to break; cf. Skr. lup to break. [ root] 114. Cf. { Bereave}, { Rob}, v. t., { Robe}, { Rove}, v. i., { Rupture}.] To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [ Archaic]. " To reave his life." -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] He golden apples raft of the dragon. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] If the wooers reave By privy stratagem my life at home. -- Chapman. [ 1913 Webster] To reave the orphan of his patrimony. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] The heathen caught and reft him of his tongue. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster]
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