Associations to the word «Reave»

Wiktionary

REAVE, verb. (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
REAVE, verb. (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

Dictionary definition

REAVE, verb. Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin