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RIVE
cleave, split, rive
(verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; “cleave the bone”
rend, rip, rive, pull
(verb) tear or be torn violently; “The curtain ripped from top to bottom”; “pull the cooked chicken into strips”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
rive (third-person singular simple present rives, present participle riving, simple past rove or rived, past participle riven or rived)
(transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
(transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
(intransitive) To break apart; to split.
(transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
(woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
Synonyms
• (to rend asunder): cleave, rend, split
Noun
rive (plural rives)
A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Synonyms
• (a place torn): rent, rift
Etymology 2
Noun
rive (plural rives)
A bank or shore.
Verb
rive
To land.
Anagrams
• Iver, iver, vier, vire
Source: Wiktionary
Rive, v. t. [imp. Rived; p. p. Rived or Riven (; p. pr. & vb. n. Riving.] Etym: [Icel. rifa, akin to Sw. rifva to pull asunder, burst, tear, Dan. rive to rake, pluck, tear. Cf. Reef of land, Rifle a gun, Rift, Rivel.]
Definition: To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles. I shall ryve him through the sides twain. Chaucer. The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks. Shak. Brutus hath rived my heart. Shak.
Rive, v. i.
Definition: To be split or rent asunder. Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction. Woodward.
Rive, n.
Definition: A place torn; a rent; a rift. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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