reprive

reprive

English

Verb

reprive (third-person singular simple present reprives, present participle repriving, simple past and past participle reprived)

1. Obsolete form of reprieve.

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Etymology 2

re- + Latin privare (“to deprive”).

Verb

reprive (third-person singular simple present reprives, present participle repriving, simple past and past participle reprived)

1. To take back or away.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reprive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

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