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Reave vs Reve – What’s the difference?

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Reave vs Reve - What's the difference?
As verbs the difference between reave and reve is that reave is (archaic) to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove or reave can be (archaic) to split, tear, break apart while reve is (pt-verb-form-of).

reave

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) reven, from (etyl) ‘to roughen’, Sanskrit (term) ‘to make suffer’). See (m) and (m).

Alternative forms

* reive

Verb

  • (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
  • *
  • * 1997 , Lawrence R. Schehr, Rendering French Realism (ISBN 0804780161), page 18:
    • 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.
    Derived terms

    * border reivers

    Related terms

    * (l)
    * (l)
    * (l)
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.

    Verb

  • (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.
    • Related terms

    * (l)

    reve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • (local official).
    • (Piers Plowman)
  • * 14thC‘, , ”Prologue to the ”’Reves Tale”, 1915, ”The College Chaucer , page 94,
    • Ne at this tale I saugh no man hym greve, / But it were oonly Osewold the Reve ;

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