reive
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of reive
First recorded in 1860–65; variant of reave 1
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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
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
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
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
And his reiving was carried on in no paltry or insignificant fashion.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
The family bearing this patronymic was well known in Liddesdale and the Debateable land, and the various branches of the family, like the Armstrongs and Elliots, were distinguished for their reiving propensities.
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
Border reiving did not altogether cease for nearly a hundred years after the union of the Crowns; but the beginning of the seventeenth century inaugurated the period of its decline.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
Ye needna ask whae Rob Roy is, the reiving lifter that he is—God forgie me!
From Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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