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Verb: reave (reft)  reev
Usage: archaic
  1. Steal goods; take as spoils
    - plunder, despoil, loot, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
     
  2. To rob or plunder, especially in a border raid
    "The Scottish clans would reave cattle from English farms";
    - reive [archaic]

Sounds like: reals, reave

Derived forms: reaves, reaving, reft

Type of: take

Encyclopedia: Reave