'Rive' definitions:
Definition of 'rive'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Rive'
From: GCIDE
- Rive \Rive\, v. i. To be split or rent asunder. [1913 Webster]
- Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction. --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rive'
From: GCIDE
- Rive \Rive\, n. A place torn; a rent; a rift. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rive'
From: GCIDE
- Rive \Rive\, v. t. [imp. Rived; p. p. Rived or Riven; p. pr. & vb. n. Riving.] [Icel. r[imac]fa, akin to Sw. rifva to pull asunder, burst, tear, Dan. rive to rake, pluck, tear. Cf. Reef of land, Rifle a gun, Rift, Rivel.] To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles. [1913 Webster]
- I shall ryve him through the sides twain. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Brutus hath rived my heart. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amputate,
- ax,
- bisect,
- breach,
- break,
- broach,
- butcher,
- carve,
- check,
- chink,
- chop,
- cleave,
- crack,
- crevasse,
- cut,
- cut apart,
- cut away,
- cut in two,
- cut off,
- cut open,
- dichotomize,
- dispart,
- dissever,
- ditch,
- divaricate,
- divide,
- excise,
- fissure,
- fly open,
- fracture,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gash,
- groove,
- hack,
- halve,
- hew,
- incise,
- jigsaw,
- lance,
- lay open,
- ope,
- open,
- open up,
- pare,
- part,
- prune,
- rend,
- rent,
- rift,
- rip,
- rupture,
- saw,
- scissor,
- separate,
- sever,
- slash,
- slice,
- slit,
- slot,
- snip,
- split,
- spread,
- spread out,
- spring open,
- sunder,
- swing open,
- tap,
- tear,
- tear open,
- throw open,
- trench,
- whittle