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reft

adjective as in divided

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Example Sentences

No children have we to lament, no wives to wail our fall; The traitor's and the spoiler's hand have reft our hearths of all.

As like as not, you are reft from a last wave to the city's unresponsive and dingy back by the roar and suffocation of a tunnel.

Shall ye range the pathless forest dreary day and darksome night, Reft of all save native virtue, clad in native, inborn might?

Thy home, it is reft from thee; thy reputation, it is a scoff; thine honour, it is a ghost that shall haunt thee!

He would have reft it from the said George; but he resisted, alleging that the Frenchman did wrong.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reft, such as: branched, cleft, prorated, split, apart, and asunder.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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