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

See Examples For:

reive reiving

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

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

I won'er, now, could I conthrive to reive the top-cape off of this.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane

If that God gie the deil daurna reive.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

We find in the “Border Papers,” from which much of our information regarding Border reiving has been drawn, that the name “Burness” frequently occurs.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

He had evidently, from what we learn of him, inherited all the reiving tendencies of his race.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

But, notwithstanding the removal of these lawless men from the Borders, it was found that those who had been left at home were either unwilling or unable to abandon their reiving habits.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

They looked upon their reiving as being of the nature of reprisal.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

And his reiving was carried on in no paltry or insignificant fashion.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert