Meaning & use
rive
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To tear or split something apart violently.
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Lightning seemed to rive the old oak clean in two.
Grief rived her heart as she read the final letter.
A note on using this word
A literary and somewhat archaic verb, related to Old Norse rifa; its past participle riven survives more commonly, as in riven with conflict.
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