reave

Other forms of reave

past tense or participle

reft

present participle

reaving·

third person

reaves·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reave

What does reave mean?

reave means "steal goods; take as spoils".

How many syllables are in reave?

reave has 1 syllable: reave. In IPA it is /ˈɹiv/.

What is another word for reave?

Close synonyms include plunder, despoil, loot, strip, rifle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reave a common word?

reave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with reave?

1 word rhymes with reave. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.