riven
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verb (used with object)
1.
to tear or rend apart: to rive meat from a bone.
2.
to separate by striking; split; cleave.
3.
to rend, harrow, or distress (the feelings, heart, etc.).
4.
to split (wood) radially from a log.
verb (used without object)
5.
to become rent or split apart: stones that rive easily.
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un·rived, adjective
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| —vb , rives, riving, rived, rived, riven | |
| 1. | to split asunder: a tree riven by lightning |
| 2. | to tear apart: riven to shreds |
| 3. | archaic to break (the heart) or (of the heart) to be broken |
| [C13: from Old Norse rīfa; related to Old Frisian rīva] | |
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Word Origin & History
riven
"split, cloven, rent," 1307, past participle of rive "to tear, rend" (c.1275), from O.N. rifa "to tear apart," from P.Gmc. *rifanan (see riparian)
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Example sentences
They may have boated on it, riven over it or lived on or near it.
In countries riven by conflict, little can be done to speed economic progress.
But the revivalist movement is already riven by splits.
And for the time being the country's politics is not riven violently along sectarian lines.
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