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- reave (v.)[reave 词源字典]
- Old English reafian "to rob (something from someone), plunder, pillage," from Proto-Germanic *raubjon (cognates: Old Frisian ravia, Middle Dutch roven, Dutch rooven, Old High German roubon, German rauben), from PIE *reup- "to snatch" (see rip (v.)). Related: Reaved; reaving.[reave etymology, reave origin, 英语词源]