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rieving

rieving is the present participle and gerund of rieve.

rieving is the archaic 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 rieving

pluralrievings

Questions about rieving

What is rieving the present participle and gerund of?
Rieving is the present participle and gerund of rieve.

Words near rieving in the dictionary

  1. rieved
  2. riever
  3. rievers
  4. rieves
  5. Rieveses
  6. rieving
  7. rievings
  8. rif
  9. RIFA
  10. rifa-
  11. rifabutin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rieving (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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