And I for one am not convinced of the innocence of the model: it is as if we let a criminal make up the law as he or she ambles along, reaving right and left.
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Reave
//ɹiːv//
Synonyms for "reave" (23 found)
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Translations
26 translations across 11 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نَهْب بِالْإِعْتِدَاء verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
Bulgarian
2 entries- ограбвам verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
- похищавам verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 偷走 verb (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.)
- 夺走 verb (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.)
- 抢夺 verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
- 抢走 verb (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.)
Dutch
1 entries- roven verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
German
1 entries- rauben verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
Irish
1 entries- creach verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
Polish
4 entries- grabić verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
- ograbić verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
- plądrować verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
- splądrować verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
Russian
4 entries- гра́бить verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
- опустоша́ть verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
- разоря́ть verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
- расхища́ть verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
Spanish
1 entries- robar verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
Swedish
1 entries- röva verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
Ukrainian
4 entries- відбирати verb (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.)
- грабувати verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
- плюндрувати verb (to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove)
- позбавляти verb (to deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Few of the chroniclers of Nero’s reign have been accurate when relating the situation that obtained between the Emperor and his mother from the time when, reft of her German and Pannonian guards, she lived in a more or less solitary rage on one estate or another.
Source: wiktionary
There was the same enforced composure on her face, that there had been when she was dressing; and the wreath upon her head encircled the same cold and steady brow. But it would have been better to have seen its leaves and flowers reft into fragments by her passionate hand, […]
Source: wiktionary
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