roven

Roven is a Dutch word meaning to steal.

(verb)

An example of roven is someone taking your car in Amsterdam without asking.

Roven is the past tense for reeve, which is a nautical term for passing a rope through a hole or ring.

(noun)

An example of roven is what a rope would be after passing it through the ring of an anchor.

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See roven in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

reeve
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