reave

Significat (Anglès)

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

Conceptes

desvalisar

espoliar

expilar

Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ɹiːv/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

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.

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