reave

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. archaic
    — And I for one am not convinced of the innocence of the model: it is as if we let a criminal make up the law as he or she ambles along, reaving right and left.
  2. To split, tear, break apart. archaic
    — There was the same enforced composure on her face, that there had been when she was dressing; and the wreath upon her head encircled the same cold and steady brow. But it would have been better to have seen its leaves and flowers reft into fragments by her passionate hand, […]
  3. To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. archaic
    — Few of the chroniclers of Nero’s reign have been accurate when relating the situation that obtained between the Emperor and his mother from the time when, reft of her German and Pannonian guards, she lived in a more or less solitary rage on one estate or another.

词形变化

reaves present,singular,third-person reaving participle,present reaved participle,past reaved past reft participle,past reft past reive alternative,archaic rieve alternative,archaic reaves present,singular,third-person reaving participle,present reft participle,past reft past reive alternative,archaic rieve alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
border reiver toreave
相关词
bereave reaver rip rob

词源

词源 1
From Middle English reven, from Old English rēafian, from Proto-West Germanic *raubōn.
Germanic cognates include West Frisian rave, Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty”)), and Old English past participle rofen (“torn, broken”), Norwegian rjuva, German rauben, Danish røve, and Swedish röva. Outside of Germanic, related to Latin rumpō (“to break”), Lithuanian rùpti (“to roughen”), Sanskrit रोपयति (ropayati, “to make suffer”)). See rob and reif.
词源 2
Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.
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