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RIVE (riven)

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Irregular inflected form: riven  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rive mean? 

RIVE (verb)
  The verb RIVE has 2 senses:

1. tear or be torn violentlyplay

2. separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrumentplay

  Familiarity information: RIVE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RIVE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they rive  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it rives  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: rived  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: riven  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: riving  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tear or be torn violently

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

pull; rend; rip; rive

Context example:

pull the cooked chicken into strips

Hypernyms (to "rive" is one way to...):

bust; rupture; snap; tear (separate or cause to separate abruptly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something


Sense 2

Meaning:

Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cleave; rive; split

Context example:

cleave the bone

Hypernyms (to "rive" is one way to...):

tear (to separate or be separated by force)

Verb group:

cleave (make by cutting into)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rive"):

maul (split (wood) with a maul and wedges)

laminate (split (wood) into thin sheets)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something


 Context examples 


Descending the laurel walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gasped ghastly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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