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riv·en
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ˈrɪv
ən
/
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riv
-
uh
n
]
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verb
1.
a past participle of
rive
.
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adjective
2.
rent or split apart.
3.
split radially, as a log.
Related forms
un·riv·en,
adjective
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rive
/
raɪv
/
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[
rahyv
]
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verb,
rived,
rived
or
riv·en,
riv·ing.
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.
Origin:
1225–75;
Middle English
riven
<
Old Norse
rīfa
to tear, split. See
rift
Related forms
un·rived,
adjective
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World English Dictionary
rive
(raɪv)
—
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
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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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
)
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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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.
On the interior of the closet one can see
riven
laths with wrought lath nails.
Lame duck president, deeply
riven
board, ridiculous faculty senate.
In the chimney closet the wall below the pent roof is plastered over
riven
laths.
Forty-inch knee walls in the attic are constructed of triangular
riven
studs and fastened to the rafters with wrought nails.
Amid this pressure the hacker underground,
riven
by squabbles and splits over personality and policy, has turned on itself.
Such houses employed closely-spaced logs or poles for their floors, and split or
riven
boards for the roof covering.
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