rive

Definition of rive in English English dictionary: To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave; A place torn; a rent; a rift; To be split or rent asunder; To break apart; to split
The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue .; To pierce or cleave with a weapon
he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her hand but sodenly she sette the pomell to the ground, and rofe her self thorow the body.; {v} to cleave, split, be split, thrust, stab; tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"; {f} tear, rend, split; be torn, be rent, be split; To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles; separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone"
riven: Past participle of rive
rove: Simple past of rive
rove: To shoot with arrows (at)
And thou that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue .
rove: {v} to ramble, wander, range, walk about
rived: past of rive
riven: If a country or organization is riven by conflict, it is damaged or destroyed by violent disagreements. The four provinces are riven by deep family and tribal conflicts
riven: torn apart
riven: broken into pieces; split asunder
riven: from Rive
rives: third-person singular of rive
rives: plural of rive
riving: present participle of rive
rove: Past tense of reeve
rove: To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool
rove: To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area
rove: To card wool or other fibres
rove: The act of wandering; a ramble
rove: (1 syl ) To shoot with roving arrows- i e arrows shot at a roving mark, either in height or distance To shoot at rovers To shoot at certain marks of the target so called; to shoot at random without any distinct aim “Unbelievers are said by Clobery to `shoot at rovers ”- Divine Glimpscs, p 4 (1659) Running at rovers Running wild; being without restraint
rove: a stroll, ramble; a wandering
rove: To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range)
rove: {i} cotton or wool fiber that has been stretched and twisted prior to being spun into yarn
rove: 1. If someone roves about an area or roves an area, they wander around it. roving about the town in the dead of night and seeing something peculiar She became a photographer, roving the world with her camera in her hand. = roam see also roving. An act of wandering about, over, around, or through. A past tense and a past participle of reeve
rove: To draw through an eye or aperture
rove: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
rove: A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving
rove: Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise
rove: A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building
rove: To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy
rove: To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together
rove: To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning
rove: {f} wander aimlessly, roam, meander; stretch and twist fibers to prepare them for spinning
rove: To wander over or through

rive

Synonyms

cleave, rend, split, rent, rift

Pronunciation

Etymology

() From Middle English riven (“to rive”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse rīfa (“to rend, tear apart”), from Proto-Germanic *rīfanan (“to tear, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)reip- (“to crumble, tear”). Cognate with Danish rive (“to tear”), Old Frisian rīva (“to tear”), Old English ārǣfan (“to let loose, unwrap”), Old Norse ript (rift, “breach of contract”), Norwegianrive (“to tear”). More at rift.

Tenses

rives, riving, rived

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