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verb
1.
a past participle of rive.
adjective
2.
rent or split apart.
3.
split radially, as a log.
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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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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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