Word Meanings - RIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles. I shall ryve him through the sides twain. Chaucer. The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks. Shak. Brutus hath rived my heart. Shak. (more info) tear,

Additional info about word: RIVE

To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles. I shall ryve him through the sides twain. Chaucer. The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks. Shak. Brutus hath rived my heart. Shak. (more info) tear, Dan. rive to rake, pluck, tear. Cf. Reef of land, Rifle a gun,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RIVE)

• Rend
• Tear
• lacerate
• divide
• separate
• split
• disintegrate
• disunite
• rive
• tear asunder
• Split
• Divide
• cleave
• crack
• splinter
• burst
• rend
• sunder
• disagree
• secede

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RIVE)

• Cohere
• hold
• stand

Related words: (words related to RIVE)

• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• LACERATE; LACERATED
  Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge. (more info) 1. Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.
• SPLITFEET
  The Fissipedia.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• DISAGREER
  One who disagrees. Hammond.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• SPLIT SWITCH
  = Point switch.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• CRACKER STATE
  Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
• LACERATE
  To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
• CRACKLE
  To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.
• CRACKLED
  Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• ANTICOHERER
  A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The
• DILACERATE
  To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• SUBDIVIDE
  To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.