different between reave vs bereave

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English bireven, from Old English ber?afian (“to bereave, deprive of, take away, seize, rob, despoil”), from Proto-Germanic *biraub?n?, and Old English ber?ofan (“to bereave, deprive, rob of”); both equivalent to be- +? reave. Cognate with Dutch beroven (“to rob, deprive, bereave”), German berauben (“to deprive, rob, bereave”), Danish berøve (“to deprive of”), Norwegian berove (“to deprive”), Swedish beröva (“to rob”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (biraub?n).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /b???i?v/
• Rhymes: -i?v

Verb

bereave (third-person singular simple present bereaves, present participle bereaving, simple past and past participle bereaved or bereft)

1. (transitive) To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim.
   • 1719, Thomas Tickell, On the Death of Mr. Addison

     bereft of him who taught me how to sing

2. (transitive, obsolete) To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.
3. (transitive) To deprive of power; prevent.
4. (transitive) To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.

5. (intransitive, rare) To destroy life; cut off.

Derived terms

• bereavement
• bereaver

Related terms

• reave

Translations