Usually means: Steal, plunder, or forcibly take.
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  1. reave: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reave, reave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reave: Vocabulary.com
  6. reave: Wordnik
  7. reave: Wiktionary
  8. reave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. reave: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Reave, Reave, reave: Dictionary.com
  11. Reave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Reave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. reave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. reave: Rhymezone
  15. Reave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. reave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. reave: Free Dictionary
  18. reave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. reave: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reave: Legal dictionary

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  1. reave: Encyclopedia

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Science (1 matching dictionary)
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  1. Reave: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reave)

verb:  (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
verb:  (archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
verb:  (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

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