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.
See roven in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb