different between dreave vs reave

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dreven, from Old English dr?fan (“to drive, drive out, expel”), from Proto-Germanic *draibijan? (“to cause to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”). Cognate with Icelandic dreifa (“to spread out, disperse”). More at drive.

Alternative forms

• dreve

Verb

dreave (third-person singular simple present dreaves, present participle dreaving, simple past and past participle dreft or dreaved)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To drive; drive out; drive away; expel.

Etymology 2

From Middle English draf, from Old English dr?f (“a drove, herd”). More at drove.

Alternative forms

• drave, draif, dreef

Noun

dreave (plural dreaves)

1. (Britain dialectal) A drove.
2. (Britain dialectal) A crowd or throng of people.
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) The yearly herring fishing.
4. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A shoal of fish; a catch.

Anagrams

• Deaver, Devera, avered, evader, reaved, vereda

English

Alternative forms

• reive, rieve (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?v/

• Rhymes: -i?v

• Homophone: reeve

Etymology 1

From Middle English reven, from Old English r?afian, from Proto-West Germanic *raub?n.

Germanic cognates include West Frisian rave, Old English r?af (“spoils, booty”)), and Old English past participle rofen (“torn, broken”), Norwegian rjuva, German rauben, Danish røve, and Swedish röva. Outside of Germanic, related to Latin rumpere (“to break”), Lithuanian rùpti (“to roughen”), Sanskrit ?????? (ropayati, “to make suffer”)). See rob and reif.

Verb

reave (third-person singular simple present reaves, present participle reaving, simple past and past participle reaved or reft)

1. (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
2. (archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

Derived terms

• border reiver

Related terms

• bereave
• reaver
• rip
• rob

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.

Verb

reave (third-person singular simple present reaves, present participle reaving, simple past and past participle reft)

1. (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

Related terms

• rive
• unreaved

Middle English

Verb

reave

1. Alternative form of reven