Rive
[raiv]
Definition
(v. t.) To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.
(v. i.) To be split or rent asunder.
(n.) A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Editor: Wendell
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Rend, split, cleave, tear or rend asunder.
Typist: Phil
Definition
v.t. to tear asunder: to split: to pierce: to explode.—v.i. to be split asunder:—pa.t. rīved; pa.p. rīved riv′en.—n. that which is torn.
n. a bank: shore.—v.i. to land.
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Examples
- Now the riving and fall of icy rocks clave the air; now the thunder of the avalanche burst on our ears. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You were always driving and riving and shouldering and passing, to that restless degree that I had no chance for my life but in rust and repose. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They are dead and gone to Heaven; They are dead and gone to Heaven; 'Rived in the goodly land. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She is dead and gone to Heaven; She is dead and gone to Heaven; 'Rived in the goodly land. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Rives, a passenger, who had been the United States Minister to France. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There's where she sits, you see,' said Eugene, when they were standing under the bank, roared and riven at by the wind. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They'd be riven to bits, ere ever they'd be different. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- 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. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Though thy bark be tempest-driven, Though each plank be rent and riven, Truth will bear thee on for ever! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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