reive

American  

[reev] / riv /

verb (used with or without object)

Chiefly Scot.

reived, reiving

1. to rob; plunder.

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reive British  

/ riːv /

verb

1. dialect (intr) to go on a plundering raid

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Other Word Forms

• reiver noun

Etymology

Origin of reive

First recorded in 1860–65; variant of reave ¹

Example Sentences

As kick-off approached, they roared and roared, fuelled by the hope of seeing their team pull off a remarkable shock and reive their qualifying hopes.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2023

Doobtless sic bairnies hae to suffer frae the prood jeedgment o' their fellow-men and women, but they may get muckle guid and little ill frae that—a guid naebody can reive them o'.

From Salted with Fire by MacDonald, George

“Tell her,” quoth he, “that I be going across seas to reive the Dons, and that I shall bring back to her a gold drinking-cup worthy of her oldest brew.”

From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis

For every cow I spared before  In charity set free, If I may reach my hold once more  I'll reive an honest three.

From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Kipling, Rudyard

If that God gie the deil daurna reive.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander