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Definitions for Riven

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

Words related to Riven

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

Words nearby Riven

rivalrous, rivalry, rivals, the, rive, rivel, riven, river, river basin, river birch, river blindness, river bugging

Origin of Riven

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

Other words from Riven

un·riv·en , adjective
un·rived , adjective

Word origin for Riven

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

Synonyms for Riven

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