- verb(be riven)rive (verb) · rives (third person present) · rived (past tense) · riving (present participle) · riven (past participle)
- literarysplit or tear apart violently:"the party was riven by disagreements over Europe" · "he was riven with guilt"
- archaicsplit or crack (wood or stone):"the wood was riven with deep cracks"
- archaic(of wood or stone) split or crack:"I started to chop furiously, the dry wood riving and splintering under the axe"
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse rífa, of unknown ultimate origin.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb
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