English Dictionary

rive

/ɹaɪv/

verb

(transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. / (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon. / (intransitive) To break apart; to split.

I will drive you to the airport.

意味（1）

(transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.

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

意味（2）

(transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.

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

意味（3）

(intransitive) To break apart; to split.

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

意味（4）

(transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.

Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery

意味（5）

(woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).