reive
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of reive
First recorded in 1860–65; variant of reave 1
Example Sentences
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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
“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 Louis Tracy
I won'er, now, could I conthrive to reive the top-cape off of this.
From Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow
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 George MacDonald
If that God gie the deil daurna reive.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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 Robert Borland
They simply denote ordinary incidents of Border reiving.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
Percival Reed would have to get his leave, or it was all up with reiving in Redesdale.
From Stories of the Border Marches by Jeanie Lang
Presumably the fortune was not great, and even in the old reiving days no Rutherfurd ever rolled in wealth.
From Stories of the Border Marches by Jeanie Lang
In a history of Border reiving such side-lights as the ballads afford may be profitably utilized.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
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