Choose the Right Synonym for rive

tear, rip, rend, split, cleave, rive mean to separate forcibly. tear implies pulling apart by force and leaving jagged edges. tear up the letter rip implies a pulling apart in one rapid uninterrupted motion often along a line or joint. ripped the shirt on a nail rend implies very violent or ruthless severing or sundering. an angry mob rent the prisoner's clothes split implies a cutting or breaking apart in a continuous, straight, and usually lengthwise direction or in the direction of grain or layers. split logs for firewood cleave implies very forceful splitting or cutting with a blow. a bolt of lightning cleaved the giant oak rive occurs most often in figurative use. a political party riven by conflict

Examples of rive in a Sentence

road pavement that had been riven by the annual freeze-and-thaw cycle the bitter disappointment threatened to rive my heart in two

Recent Examples on the Web The Geneva slopes are Switzerland's third-largest wine-producing area, with three distinct regions: rive droit – the right bank of the Lake, including Satigny village, which has the highest concentration of winegrowers in Switzerland. — Michele Robson, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021 One coupon was tensile-tested to failure to de rive the stress-strain data. — Clarence L. Johnson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2021 Just in time America is riven politically, and tensions have erupted this week with the awful death of a black man in Minnesota, George Floyd. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 May 2020 And new attention will be paid to the class divisions that have riven American society. — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2020 News reports this autumn detailed her disorganised, riven and functionally leaderless campaign, beset by internal rivalries and fund-raising woes. — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019 After more than three decades without baseball, the Montreal Expos moved to Washington in 2005 rebranded as the Nationals, becoming perhaps the only bipartisan agreement in a capital rived by tribalism as Republicans and Democrats flocked to games. — Peter Baker, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2019 The divisions in the states riven by civil war are ethnic, denominational, interreligious, geographical, tribal, and ideological. — New York Times, 12 May 2020 The strong bipartisan vote showed a rare level of unity in a Washington riven by partisan divides with a backdrop of a bitter fight for the Senate and the White House this fall. — Laura Litvan, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020 See More

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