reft Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb steal goods; take as spoils
    pillage; strip; despoil; plunder; foray; rifle; loot; reave; ransack.
    • During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners

WordNet

Reft imp. & p. p. of Reave
Definitions
  1. Bereft.
    Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn. Heber.
Reft noun
Definitions
  1. A chink; a rift. See Rift. Rom. of R.

Webster 1913