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Rive

verb
(past rived; past part. rived; pres. part. riving)
1.
Tear or be torn violently.  Synonyms: pull, rend, rip.  "Pull the cooked chicken into strips"
2.
Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.  Synonyms: cleave, split.






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"Rive" Quotes from Famous Books



... movement sane, In harmony with what is fair. Never is Earth misread by brain: That is the welling of her, there The mirror: with one step beyond, For likewise is it voice; and more, Benignest kinship bids respond, When wail the weak, and them restore Whom days as fell as this may rive, While Earth sits ebon in her gloom, Us atomies of life alive Unheeding, bent on life to come. Her children of the labouring brain, These are the champions of the race, True parents, and the sole humane, With ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



Words linked to "Rive" :   snap, bust, rupture, tear, laminate, maul



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