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  1. transitive verb To rend or tear apart.
  2. transitive verb To break into pieces, as by a blow; cleave or split asunder.
  3. transitive verb To break or distress (the spirit, for example).
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  • The rive was no longer reft, the grounds having deteriorated into patches of parched grass crossed by muddy tracks, sentried here and there by dying, sparsely leaved eucalyptus. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
  • His head will ne'er rive (i.e. tear) his father's bonnet . —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • Amazingly, he is only 25 years old when this period begins; already a veteran of the Lettrist movement, another obscure predecessor of the SI, his voice is almost preternaturally cool and in control, except when he is provoked by the cerebral Constant, searches for the peripatetic Jorn (who roams in a near continual dérive or drift between Denmark, Alba and Paris), or flames the odd enemy or unsuspecting bureaucrat. —  London Review of Books
  • Well according to the Australian Government the smart Fortwo micro-hybrid-rive is officially our greenest car. —  Australian Car Advice | News Blog
  • It would be curious to know whether, after so dire a reverse His enpierced breast Sharp sorrow did in thousand pieces rive or whether his fiery zeal still rose superior to calamity, and pictured the eventual triumph of his cause. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English riven, from Old Norse rīfa.

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  1. from Middle English rīuen, ryven (preterit rof, roof, raf, ref, past participle riven, rifen, reven), from Icelandic rīfa (preterit rif, past participle rifinn), rive, = Swedish rifva = Danish rive, scratch, tear, = Dutch rijven = Middle Low German riven, grate, rake, = Old High German rīban, Middle High German rīben, German reiben, rub, grate (but the Old High German form may be for *wrīban = Dutch wrijven = Middle Low German wriven, Low German wrīven, rub). Hardly allied to Greek ἐρείπειν, throw or dash down, tear down, or ἐρείκειν, tear, break, rend, rive, = Sanskrit √ rikh, scratch. Hence rive, n., rift, and ult. rivel, rifle, and perhaps ribald. Cf. rip, ripple.
  2. = Icelandic rifa, a cleft, fissure; from the verb. Cf. riva.
  3. Middle English, from Middle Dutch rijve (= Middle High German rive), a rake, from rijven, scrape, scratch: see rive.
  4. Middle English rive, from Old French rive, from Latin ripa, a bank of a stream, rarely the shore of the sea; of doubtful origin. Cf. Greek ἐρίπνη, a broken cliff, scar, a steep edge or bank, from ἐρείπειν, tear down. From the L. ripa are also ult. English ripe, rive, arrive, rivage, etc. See river.
  5. from Middle English riven, aphetic form of ariven, arrive: see arrive. Cf. Old French river, follow the edge or border of a stream, road, or wood, from rive, bank, edge: see rive.
 

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