rive
to tear or rend apart: to rive meat from a bone.
to separate by striking; split; cleave.
to rend, harrow, or distress (the feelings, heart, etc.).
to split (wood) radially from a log.
to become rent or split apart: stones that rive easily.
Origin of rive
1Other words from rive
- un·rived, adjective
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How to use rive in a sentence
The area is riven by drought — the environment’s loss, but researchers’ gain, since it helps expose the fossils.
‘Giant treasure trove’ of fossils may give a better picture of Miocene epoch about 10 million years ago | Erin Blakemore | May 30, 2021 | Washington PostWe were riven by political divides, but over time, these may come to seem less important as we move to the other side of our collective traumas.
The Pandemic Made Us Strangers to Ourselves. Will We Have Learned Anything When It's Over? | Sherry Turkle | March 16, 2021 | TimeThe fight over Dominion and its influence has riven Virginia politics in recent years.
“The People We Serve Are Paying Too Much for Energy:” Virginia Lawmakers Are Targeting Dominion Energy | by Patrick Wilson and Mel Leonor, Richmond Times-Dispatch | January 29, 2021 | ProPublicaResponsibility for their inoculation, meanwhile, will fall to a public health system maimed by budget cuts and riven by racial and other inequities.
Mass vaccinations against covid-19 will be ‘mind-blowing’ challenge for Alabama, other poor, rural states | Isaac Stanley-Becker | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostThe president, GOP senators and his advisers have been riven over what to offer in terms of immigration throughout his presidency.
Trump, in town hall, says he wouldn’t have done anything differently on pandemic | Colby Itkowitz, Josh Dawsey, Felicia Sonmez, John Wagner | September 16, 2020 | Washington Post
I was wearing a lacy black nightgown and rive Gauche by St. Laurent when I let him in.
The quaint methods of previous witnesses are amplified by M. de la rive.
Devil-Worship in France | Arthur Edward WaiteM. de la rive must therefore on all counts of his evidence be ruled out of court as a witness.
Devil-Worship in France | Arthur Edward WaiteI do not know of a more insidious temptation to buy what you do not need than loitering along the quais of the rive Gauche.
Paris Vistas | Helen Davenport GibbonsMr. Ionides says that once, on the rive gauche, they met Murger, and Whistler introduced him.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler | Elizabeth Robins PennellGeorge de rive, in alarm, convoked the magistrates of all the districts in the earldom.
History of the Great Reformation, Volume IV | J. H. Merle D'Aubign
British Dictionary definitions for rive
/ (raɪv) /
to split asunder: a tree riven by lightning
to tear apart: riven to shreds
archaic to break (the heart) or (of the heart) to be broken
Origin of rive
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