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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
reave .
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Examples
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Cloud shadows scud across the splashy and drier ground where prehistoric circles, tumuli, cairns and reaves subside into the rough vegetation and where attention focuses on the few gnarled and wind-pruned hawthorns.
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That stupid film with the pod people and keanu reaves.
Cheeseburger Gothic » A few quiet ales with the crew… and a special guest from America. 2009
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And I love and hate america at the same time. vu on Aug 9, 2008 yes keanue reaves. fricken sweet. akira_freak (anime) on Aug 13, 2008
Must Watch: First The Day the Earth Stood Still Trailer! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Reaving Peace, i.e. when he reaves or takes Peace away, as No. 35, l.
Notes 1918
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That oft the memory reaves, perchance hath made125
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Wonderfully JESUS works in His lovers, those whom he reaves from the pleasure of flesh and blood through tender love.
The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901
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The second that reaves away a man's reward for his good deed, is vanity, which stirs man to do the good because he would be praised.
The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901
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_Reaving Peace_, i.e. when he reaves or takes Peace away, as No. 35, l.
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866
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Cf. Shakespeare, V. and A. 766: “Or butcher-sire that reaves his son of life” (that is, bereaves); Spenser, F.Q. i.
The Lady of the Lake 1810
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Cf. Shakespeare, V. and A. 766: "Or butcher-sire that reaves his son of life" (that is, bereaves); Spenser, F.Q. i.
The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801
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