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Meanings of reave in English

Portuguese
roubar
Catalan
desvalisar
Spanish
despojar

Steal goods; take as spoils.

roubar
Usage of reave in English
1
The "reave," as biotics referred to it, was used to target an opponent's nervous system.
Mass Effect: Deception
2
Gillian launched a reave.
Mass Effect: Deception
3
The result was a weak and ineffectual "reave" that did little more than give Gillian a reason to pull the trigger.
Mass Effect: Deception
4
I got to hurry, because the mair hericopter reaves right away.
—And Devious the Line of Duty
5
A good cow was a good cow, had she been twenty times reaved!
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 3
6
The reaves divided the land into pastures for cows, sheep, and Dartmoor's famous hardy ponies.
The world without us
7
It was Calamity lying on her face at the foot of the windlass, weeping and reaving her hair.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
8
5 When the wroth western wind does reave their locks;
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
9
They spread them into long, low unmortared stone reaves that crossed and hatched the landscape, and remain vivid even today.
The world without us
10
577 Sith nothing ever may redeem, nor reave
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
11
"Father sent him reaving along the Stony Shore." Lady Alannys had naught to say to that.
A feast for crows
12
"Or I'll use it as leverage to get you to start playing Reaving night too." He grinned.
The Wise Man’s Fear
13
He's off to Wilmington, they say, and I'm fain to hope we've seen the last o' him and his reaving redcoats in these parts.
The Master of Appleby / A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part w...
14
8 Into his power, that used her so hard, 9 To reave her honour, which she more than life preferred.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
15
"The Crow's Eye oft went reaving."
A feast for crows
Frequent collocations
Translations for reave
Spanish
despojar
Reave through the time