reave

Significat (anglès)

1. To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
2. To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

Sinònims

loot

pillage

despoil

plunder

foray

ransack

rifle

strip

rob

snatch

stick up

pirate

harry

heist

hold up

mug

bereave

raid

rip off

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɹiːv/

Etimologia (anglès)

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 rumpere (“to break”), Lithuanian rùpti (“to roughen”), Sanskrit रोपयति (ropayati, “to make suffer”)). See rob and reif.