rive

rive
    v 1: tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to
         bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" [syn:
         {rend}, {rip}, {rive}, {pull}]
    2: separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument;
       "cleave the bone" [syn: {cleave}, {split}, {rive}]
    

Rive \Rive\, v. i.
   To be split or rent asunder.
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         Freestone rives, splits, and breaks in any direction.
                                                  --Woodward.
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Rive \Rive\, n.
   A place torn; a rent; a rift. [Prov. Eng.]
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Rive \Rive\, v. t. [imp. {Rived}; p. p. {Rived} or {Riven}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Riving}.] [Icel. r[imac]fa, akin to Sw. rifva
   to pull asunder, burst, tear, Dan. rive to rake, pluck, tear.
   Cf. {Reef} of land, {Rifle} a gun, {Rift}, {Rivel}.]
   To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive
   timber for rails or shingles.
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         I shall ryve him through the sides twain. --Chaucer.
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         The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks. --Shak.
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         Brutus hath rived my heart.              --Shak.
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73 Moby Thesaurus words for "rive":
      amputate, ax, bisect, breach, break, broach, butcher, carve, check,
      chink, chop, cleave, crack, crevasse, cut, cut apart, cut away,
      cut in two, cut off, cut open, dichotomize, dispart, dissever,
      ditch, divaricate, divide, excise, fissure, fly open, fracture,
      furrow, gap, gash, groove, hack, halve, hew, incise, jigsaw, lance,
      lay open, ope, open, open up, pare, part, prune, rend, rent, rift,
      rip, rupture, saw, scissor, separate, sever, slash, slice, slit,
      slot, snip, split, spread, spread out, spring open, sunder,
      swing open, tap, tear, tear open, throw open, trench, whittle