rive
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
Etymology: From Middle English riven (“to rive”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse rífa (“to rend, tear apart”), from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (“to tear, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to crumble, tear”).
Cognate with Danish rive (“to tear”), Old Frisian rīva (“to tear”), Old English ārǣfan (“to let loose, unwrap”), Old Norse ript (“breach of contract, rift”), Norwegian Bokmål rive (“to tear”), Swedish riva (”to tear”) and Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”). More at rift.
Inflected forms:
form: rives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: riving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rived
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rove
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rave
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rove
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rave
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: riven
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks[…]
gloss: To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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 hād but[…]sodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.
gloss: To break apart; to split.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue[…].
Freestone i.e. that rives, splits, and breaks in any direction.
To the west, the country descends more gradually to the extensive plains of the Nile Valley but is riven by the rugged valleys of the Takezze and other Nile tributaries.
The company was riven by strikes. Years later, the dispute with the RMT union over driver operation of train doors has still not formally been resolved.
Oil-rich Libya has been riven by political infighting, corruption and external interference since a 2011 uprising that toppled and later led to the death of the longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
gloss: To burst open; explode; discharge.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery
gloss: To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
pos: verb
gloss: A place torn; a rent; a rift.
pos: noun
Related words: rip
rib
Derived words: outrive
rave hook
rivel
riving knife
torive
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разцепвам се
roman: razcepvam se
lang: Czech
word: rozštěpit se
lang: German
word: (etwas) spalten
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sgàin
lang: Turkish
word: (bir şeyi) parçalanmak