Definitions for Reave

Reave reave

Spelling: [reev]
IPA: /riv/

Reave is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Reave (aeerv).

Definitions for Reave

verb (used with object)

  1. to take away by or as by force; plunder; rob.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. Archaic. to rend; break; tear.

Origin of Reave

before 900; Middle English reven, Old English rēafian; cognate with German rauben, Dutch roven to rob

Examples for Reave

But they try to reave from God, His part, who would be praised of men for good deeds.

Not forty Van Hupfeldts nor a legion of ghosts should reave him of those telling pieces of evidence!

I am doing what I can to reave the heavens of these monsters.

Word Value for Reave
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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