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Reaves vs Repaves – What’s the difference?

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Reaves vs Repaves - What's the difference?
As verbs the difference between reaves and repaves is that reaves is (reave) while repaves is (repave).

reaves

English

Verb

(head)

  • (reave)

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    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.
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  • * 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

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    Etymology 2

    Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.

    Verb

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

    * (l)

    repaves

    English

    Verb

    (head)

  • (repave)


    • repave

    English

    Verb

  • To pave over again.

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