Rive

//ɹaɪv//

Synonyms for "rive" (91 found)

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Closest matches (19)

cleave rend rent amputate ax bisect breach break broach burst butcher carve check chink chop crack

Verb(3 words)

Strong matches (27)

crevasse cut cut apart cut away cut in two cut off cut open dichotomize dispart dissever ditch divaricate divide excise fissure fly open fracture fragment furrow gap

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gash groove hack halve hew incise

Verb(1 words)

explode

Related words (45)

jigsaw lance lay open leave ope open open up pare part prune rift rip rupture saw scissor separate sever shatter shiver slash

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slice slit slot smash smatter snip splinter split spread spread out spring spring open sunder swing open tap tear tear open throw open trench whittle

Verb(3 words)

pull rip tear apart

Noun(2 words)

rent rift

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

More general

4 entries

bust rupture snap tear

Synonyms

4 entries

cleave leave rend rent

Related terms

2 entries

rib rip

derived

5 entries

outrive rave hook rivel riving knife torive

etymologically related_to

1 entries

rift

has context

1 entries

except in past participle

related to

7 entries

cleave pierce rent rib rift rip split

similar

1 entries

cleave

Translations

11 translations across 5 languages.

Bulgarian

3 entries

разкъсвам verb (to rend asunder by force)
разцепвам verb (to rend asunder by force)
разцепвам се verb ((reflexive) to be split or rent)

Czech

2 entries

rozštěpit verb (to rend asunder by force)
rozštěpit se verb ((reflexive) to be split or rent)

German

2 entries

(etwas) spalten verb ((reflexive) to be split or rent)
aufreißen verb (to rend asunder by force)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

sgàin verb (to rend asunder by force)
sgàin verb ((reflexive) to be split or rent)

Turkish

2 entries

(bir şeyi) parçalanmak verb ((reflexive) to be split or rent)
yırtmak verb (to rend asunder by force)

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

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I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks[…]

Source: wiktionary

And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her hād but[…]sodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body

Source: wiktionary

And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.

Source: wiktionary

The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue[…].

Source: wiktionary

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