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Webster 1913 Edition


Rive

Rive

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp.
Rived
;
p. p.
Rived
or
Riven
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Riving
.]
[Icel.
rīfa
, 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
.
I shall
ryve
him through the sides twain.
Chaucer.
The scolding winds have
rived
the knotty oaks.
Shakespeare
Brutus hath
rived
my heart.
Shakespeare

Rive

,
Verb.
I.
To be split or rent asunder.
Freestone
rives
, splits, and breaks in any direction.
Woodward.

Rive

,
Noun.
A place torn; a rent; a rift.
[Prov. Eng.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Rive

RIVE

,
Verb.
T.
pret. rived; pp. rived or riven. [L. rumpo, rupi. It may be allied to the family of L. rapio, reap, rip.]
To split; to cleave; to rend asunder by force; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles with wedges; the riven oak; the riven clouds.
The scolding winds have riv'd the knotty oaks.

RIVE

,
Verb.
I.
To be split or rent asunder.
Freestone rives, splits and breaks in any direction.

Definition 2024


rive

rive

See also: rivé

English

Verb

rive (third-person singular simple present rives, present participle riving, simple past rived or rove, past participle rived or riven)

  1. (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
    • William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)
      I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks []
  2. (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter vj, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
      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
  3. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, II.vi:
      The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue [].
    • John Woodward (1665-1728)
      Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction.
  4. (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
    • 1821, William Shakespeare, ‎James Boswell, ‎Richard Farmer, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare:
      Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery
  5. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

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Noun

rive (plural rives)

  1. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

Synonyms


Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrífa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riːvə/, [ˈʁiːwə]

Noun

rive c (singular definite riven, plural indefinite river)

  1. rake
Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rífa, from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riːvə/, [ˈʁiːwə]

Verb

rive (imperative riv, infinitive at rive, present tense river, past tense rev, perfect tense har revet)

  1. rake
  2. grate
  3. scratch, tear, rip

French

Etymology

From Latin ripa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁiv/

Noun

rive f (plural rives)

  1. bank (of a river)

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin ripa.

Noun

rive f (plural rivis)

  1. slope, ascent
  2. shore

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French arriver (happen)

Verb

rive

  1. happen

Italian

Noun

rive f

  1. plural of riva

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Latin

Noun

rīve

  1. vocative singular of rīvus

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrífa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riːvə/

Noun

rive f, m (definite singular riva or riven, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

  1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rífa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riːvə/

Verb

rive (imperative riv, present tense river, passive rives, simple past rev or reiv, past participle revet, present participle rivende)

  1. to grate
  2. to scratch, tear, rip
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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hrífa.

Noun

rive f (definite singular riva, indefinite plural river, definite plural rivene)

  1. a rake (garden and agricultural tool)

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