Definition of "rive"

rive¹

/ɹaɪv/

verb
third-person singular simple present rives, present participle riving, simple past rived or rove or rave, past participle rived or riven
1. (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
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  I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks […]
  1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii]
2. (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
  Quotations
  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(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II
3. (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
  Quotations
  The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue […].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  Freestone i.e. that rives, splits, and breaks in any direction.
  1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England
  To the west, the country descends more gradually to the extensive plains of the Nile Valley but is riven by the rugged valleys of the Takezze and other Nile tributaries.
  2012, David W. Phillipson, Foundations of an African Civilisation. Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC–AD 1300, Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, page 10
  The company was riven by strikes. Years later, the dispute with the RMT union over driver operation of train doors has still not formally been resolved.
  2021 October 20, Angie Doll explains to Paul Clifton, “We were absolutely at rock bottom...”, in RAIL, number 942, page 34
  Oil-rich Libya has been riven by political infighting, corruption and external interference since a 2011 uprising that toppled and later led to the death of the longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
  2023 September 12, Patrick Wintour, “‘Disastrous beyond comprehension’: 10,000 missing after Libya floods”, in The Guardian‎
4. (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
  Quotations
  Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery
  1821, William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Richard Farmer, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
5. (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
noun
plural rives
1. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

rive²

/ɹaɪv/

noun
plural rives
1. A bank or shore.
verb
1. To land.

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