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Definitions for Rive

[1] to tear or rend apart: to rive meat from a bone.
[2] to separate by striking; split; cleave.
[3] to rend, harrow, or distress (the feelings, heart, etc.).
[4] to split (wood) radially from a log.
[5] to become rent or split apart: stones that rive easily.
[6] to split asunder a tree riven by lightning
[7] to tear apart riven to shreds
[8] archaic to break (the heart) or (of the heart) to be broken

Words related to Rive

divide, fray, rend, disintegrate, splinter, shatter, fracture, wrest, scratch, rip, impair, slit, extract, sever, frazzle, injure, damage, split, slash, crack

Words nearby Rive

rivage, rival, rivalrous, rivalry, rivals, the, rive, rivel, riven, river, river basin, river birch

Origin of Rive

1225–75; Middle English riven < Old Norse rīfa to tear, split. See rift

Other words from Rive

un·rived , adjective

Word origin for Rive

C13: from Old Norse rīfa ; related to Old Frisian rīva

Synonyms for Rive

divide, fray, rend, break, claw, cleave, crack, damage, extract, frazzle, gash, grab, impair, incise, injure, lacerate, mangle, mutilate, pluck, pull, rip, run, rupture, scratch, seize, separate, sever, shred, slash, slit, snatch, split, sunder, wrench, wrest, yank, evulse, pull apart, ribbon, rift