Why this word is great
BENIM — [Verb] To take away; rob; deprive; ravish. From Middle English benimen, from Old English beniman, from Proto-West Germanic *bineman, from Proto-Germanic *binemaną ("to take away"), equivalent to be- ("off, away") + nim ("to take"). Unlike "steal" (which implies legal transgression) or "seize" (which suggests sudden force), "benim" carries the weight of absence carved into the present—not merely the act of taking, but the hollow left behind. It is the winter wind stripping the last leaves from an oak, the forced parting of a child from their mother’s arms, or the slow erosion of a name from memory. To benim is to make loss tangible, leaving not just absence, but the shape of what was.