reave

Verb

Verb Forms: reaved, reft, reaving, reaves

To plunder, rob, or carry away by force.
steal goods; take as spoils
To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
To split, tear, break apart.

Examples

With a well-placed REAVE, she managed to plunder most of the bonus squares on the board.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English reven, from Old English rēafian, from Proto-West Germanic *raubōn.
Germanic cognates include West Frisian rave, Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty”)), and Old English past participle rofen (“torn, broken”), Norwegian rjuva, German rauben, Danish røve, and Swedish röva. Outside of Germanic, related to Latin rumpō (“to break”), Lithuanian rùpti (“to roughen”), Sanskrit रोपयति (ropayati, “to make suffer”)). See rob and reif.

Synonyms

despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, rifle, strip

Scrabble Score: 8

reave: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
reave: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
reave: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

reave: valid Words With Friends Word