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reiving

reiving is the present participle and gerund of reive.

reiving is the alternative form of reaving.

Meaning of reaving

Noun

reaving (plural reavings)

  1. An act of pillage or plunder.
    • It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426

Forms of reiving

pluralreivings

Questions about reiving

What is reiving the present participle and gerund of?
Reiving is the present participle and gerund of reive.

Words near reiving in the dictionary

  1. reive
  2. reived
  3. reiver
  4. reivers
  5. reives
  6. reiving
  7. reivings
  8. Reizin
  9. Reizins
  10. rejack
  11. rejacked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reiving (page history and authors); reaving (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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