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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To rend or tear apart.
  2. v. To break into pieces, as by a blow; cleave or split asunder.
  3. v. To break or distress (the spirit, for example).
  4. v. To be or become split.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To split; cleave; rend asunder by force: as, to rive timber for rails, etc., with wedges; the oak is riven.
  2. To cause to pierce; thrust.
  3. To pierce; stab.
  4. To explode; discharge.
  5. Synonyms See rend.
  6. To be split or rent asunder; fall apart.
  7. n. A place torn; a rent; a tear.
  8. n. That which is torn, as with the teeth.
  9. n. A rake.
  10. An obsolete or dialectal form of rife.
  11. n. Bank; shore.
  12. To land; arrive.
  13. To go; travel.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
  2. v. transitive, archaic To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
  3. v. intransitive To break apart; to split.
  4. v. In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
  5. n. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave.
  2. v. To be split or rent asunder.
  3. n. Prov. Eng. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
  2. v. tear or be torn violently

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English riven ("to rive"), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse rīfa ("to rend, tear apart"), from Proto-Germanic *rīfanan (“to tear, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)reip- (“to crumble, tear”). Cognate with Danish rive ("to tear"), Old Frisian rīva ("to tear"), Old English ārǣfan ("to let loose, unwrap"), Old Norse ript (rift, "breach of contract"), Norwegian rive ("to tear") and Albanian rrip ("belt, rope"). More at rift. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English riven, from Old Norse rīfa. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. split
  1. cleave
  1. rent
  1. rift
  1. rend

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  1. rupture
  1. bust
  1. tear
  1. snap

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  1. ryve
  2. rave
  3. rife
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  2. roof
  3. rift
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  3. enrive
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  2. Antananarivo
  3. cleave
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  2. split
  3. wedge
  1. shatter

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