Meaning & use
Riving
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Tearing or splitting something apart violently, often along its grain.
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The woodsman was riving logs into planks with a mallet and wedge.
Grief was riving her heart as she read the letter.
A note on using this word
"Rive" is an old verb, related to "river," both ultimately from a root meaning to tear or split; it survives mainly in literary and craft contexts like riven oak.
Words with a similar meaning
splittingtearing
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Words with an opposite meaning
joiningmending
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