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Definition of 'rive'

English

Verb

  • To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks
  • To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
  • * :
    • And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her h?d butsodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
  • (label) To break apart; to split.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vi:
    • The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue .
  • * (1665-1728)
    • Freestone rives , splits, and breaks in any direction.
  • In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

    • Synonyms

    * (to rend asunder) cleave, rend, split

    See also

    * rip * rib

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A place torn; a rent; a rift.

    • Synonyms

    * (a place torn) rent, rift ----

    Similar to 'rive'

    rape, rupee, rope, reave, rube, rave, reeve, rife, ripe, rebbe, rove, robe, raphe, revue, reive, rafie, roofe, roave, ruffe, rype, rufie, rapee, reve, revie