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reft

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reft 1  (rft)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of reave1.
reft 2  (rft)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of reave2.
reft [rɛft]
vb
a past tense and past participle of reave
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For the doom which had reft me from adhesion to my master: for him I was no more to see; for the desperate grief and fatal fury--consequences of my departure--which might now, perhaps, be dragging him from the path of right, too far to leave hope of ultimate restoration thither.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
As he spoke he drew his knife across the throats of the victims, and laid them down gasping and dying upon the ground, for the knife had reft them of their strength.
The Iliad by Homer View in context
Katharine had deceived him; she had mixed herself with every thought of his, and reft of her they seemed false thoughts which he would blush to think again.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
 
 
 
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