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reft

[ reft ]

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of reave 1.
  2. a simple past tense and past participle of reave 2.


reft

/ rɛft /

verb

  1. a past tense and past participle of reave 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

No children have we to lament, no wives to wail our fall; The traitor's and the spoiler's hand have reft our hearths of all.

As like as not, you are reft from a last wave to the city's unresponsive and dingy back by the roar and suffocation of a tunnel.

Shall ye range the pathless forest dreary day and darksome night, Reft of all save native virtue, clad in native, inborn might?

Thy home, it is reft from thee; thy reputation, it is a scoff; thine honour, it is a ghost that shall haunt thee!

He would have reft it from the said George; but he resisted, alleging that the Frenchman did wrong.

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