Usually means: Plundering or stealing by force.
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  1. reaving: Merriam-Webster
  2. reaving: Collins English Dictionary
  3. reaving: Vocabulary.com
  4. reaving: Wiktionary
  5. Reaving, reaving: Dictionary.com
  6. Reaving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Reaving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. reaving: FreeDictionary.org
  9. reaving: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. reaving: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  An act of pillage or plunder.

Similar:
despoil, pillage, ransack, plunder, foray, loot, strip, rifle, rieving, hership, more...

Opposite:
giving, bestowing, donating, contributing



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Similar:
despoil, pillage, ransack, plunder, foray, loot, strip, rifle, rieving, hership, more...

Opposite:
giving, bestowing, donating, contributing



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