Rive

Definition: Rive

Rive

Verb

1. Tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips".

2. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Rive

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Crosswords: Rive

French (bank, border, coast, edge, face, river bank, shore, strand), Haitian Creole (arrive), Norwegian (grate).

Rive gauche (1931)

Belle Rive (1988)

Rive gauche Rive droite (1984)

L'autre rive Bako (1978)

L' Autre rive (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Chevaliers et princes allemands en Suede et en Finlande a l'epoque des Folkungar (1250-1363): le premier etablissement d'une noblesse allemande sur la rive septentrionale de la Baltique (reference)

• Five Have a Puzzling Time: Famous Rive (reference)

• Gold Hill and Its Neighbors Along the Rive (reference)

• L' Autre Rive (reference)

• La rive allemande de ma mémoire : récit (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Congo: L'Autre Rive (reference)

• Jou a Rive (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ile de Begheh - rive orientale - vue de l'Ile Fîleh du point K / Félix Teynard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hotel at] Eden, Indian Rive. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression using "rive": Belle Rive. Additional references.

Albanian

Çarje. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزق (cut up, disrupt, fracture, jag, lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, quarter, rend, rent, rip, rip apart, rupture, sever, shred, tatter, tear, tear to pieces, tear up, unrip, unseam), ‏تمزق (laceration, part, rend, rupture, split, tear, tearing), ‏إنشق (break up, cleave, crack, fissure, gap, rip, splinter, split), ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Разцепвам, Разкъсвам (Raven). (various references)

Czech

Rozštìpit (split, wedge), Urvat (carry away, grab, rip off). (various references)

Farsi 

ترکیدن (Blow, Blowout, Burst, Crack, Dehisce, Explode, Pop, Reave, Rupture), جداکردن (Abrupt, Abstract, Amputate, Analyze, Calve, Chop, Cleave, Cutoff, Detach, Disconnect, Dissociate, Disunite, Divide, Drawoff, Insulate, Intercept, Part, Partition, Rupture, Select, Separate, Sequester, Sever, Try, Uncouple, Unlink, Untwist, Unzip), شکافتن (Chink, Cleave, Excision, Fracture, Pierce, Rift, Rip, Slat, Slit, Split). (various references)

French

Se Fendre (rip), Se Déchirer (rip), Fendre (rift, rip), Déchirer (rip, rip off, rip up). (various references)

German

spalten (chinks, chop, cleave, clefts, colons, columns, crack, crevices, decompose, disunite, fissures, partition, slot, splinter, split, to chop, to decompose). (various references)

Greek 

ύεκολλώ, Σχίζω, Σχίζομαι, Διασπώ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ּקרוע, ּבקוע. (various references)

Hungarian

Rés (aperture, chink, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, hiatus, hole, leak, missing link, mortice, mortise, opening, pool, rift, scupper, slit, slot, split), szakadás (discontinuity, disruption, rent, split, tear), Szétrepeszt (burst, rip, rived, riven, to burst, to rive, to split), part (bank, beach, coast, land, margin, shore, strand), hasadék (breach, chink, chop, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gorge, hiatus, ravine, rip), hasadás (breach, break, chink, cleavage, crack, cracking, fission, fissure, flaw, slit, split, tear). (various references)

Indonesian

robek (split), membelah (cleave, cut a cross, rend, rip apart, slit, split). (various references)

Italian

Rottura (breach, break, breakage, breakdown, breaking, burst, disruption, fractiousness, pest, rift, rupture, severance, split, split up), Strappare (extort, extract, get torn, pluck, pull off, rend, rip, rip off, shred, snatch, snatch away, split, strip, tear, tear off, tug, wrench, wrest, yank), Squarciare (rip, slash), Spezzare (break, snap), Spaccare (break, cleave, rend, slash, smash in, split), Fessura (burst, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, leak, slit, slot, split), Fendere (cleave, hew, slice through, slit, split), Dividere (break up, cut, divide, parcel out, part, partition, separate, share, slice, split, spread). (various references)

Pig Latin

iveray.(various references)

Portuguese

rebentar (braird, bud, burgeon, burst, comb, detonate, disrupt, douche, explode, gemmate, part, pop, rupture, split), rasgar (claw, cut up, drag out, gutter, lacerate, pull, rend, rip, tatter, tear), rachar em dois, rachar (break, chap, chop, cleave, crack, craze, cut, fissure, flaw, open, sever, slit, splinter, split), fender (cleave, crack, cut, cut up, fissure, flaw, let by, nick, open, rend, rip, sever, slit, split, sunder), despedaçar (disrupt, drag out, pull, rend, shatter, tear), abrir (barge, cut, cut up, dehisce, deploy, ditch, drift, frank, free, let by, open, open up, peck, rip, spread, to open, unbar, unclasp, unclench, unclose, undraw, unfasten, unfold, unlock, unseal, unstrap). (various references)

Romanian

Tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), Smulge (carry away, draw out, elicit, extirpate, extort, pick off, pull, pull up, rend away, rend off, snatch, squeeze, tear out, uproot, worm out of, wrest, wring, yank), Se Despica (fissure, rend, splinter, split up), Mototoli (Crinkle, crumple, crush, ruffle, rumple, tumble), Despica (bifurcate, check, cleave, rend, rift, rip, slit, splinter, split), Boţi (rumple, tousle). (various references)

Russian 

Щель (Nick), Трещина (Nick). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raskinuti se, cepati (tear). (various references)

Spanish

Hender (cleave, crack, gash, rend, ride, rift, saw, slit, Spall). (various references)

Swedish

Riva Sönder (tear apart), Splittra (cleave, disunite, divide, fragment, fritter, shatter, shiver, splinter). (various references)

Thai

ฉีก (rend, rip). (various references)

Turkish

Yolmak (flake, pick, pluck, pull, tear), Yırtmak (claw, cut the gordian knot, lacerate, rend, rip, rip up, slash, slit, squirm out of, tear, tear to pieces), Koparmak (break, break off, cozen, cut off, deflorate, deflower, dissever, extort, pick, pick off, pluck, pry, pull off, rend, rip, rip off, rupture, snap, snap off, snatch, snatch away from, snatch from, sunder, take apart, tear, tear away, tear off, tear out, unstick, work, wring), Kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), Kırılmak (be broken, be hurt, be offended, be piqued at, break, break off, chip, crash, crush, explode, fracture, go to pieces, offend, shatter, sink, snap), Ýncitmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

Тріщина (Nick), Відколювати (Spall), Розриватися, Розривати, Ривок. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rive": rived, riven, river, riverbank, riverbanks, riverbed, riverbeds, riverboat, riverboats, riverfront, riverfronts, riverine, rivers, riverside, riversides, riverward, riverwards, rives, rivet, riveted, riveter, riveters, riveting, rivetingly, rivets, rivetted, rivetting. (additional references)

Words ending with "rive": arrive, coderive, codrive, contrive, deprive, derive, drive, misdrive, outdrive, overdrive, redrive, restrive, scrive, shrive, strive, thrive. (additional references)

Words containing "rive": arrived, arriver, arrivers, arrives, bedrivel, bedriveled, bedriveling, bedrivelled, bedrivelling, bedrivels, cabdriver, cabdrivers, coderived, coderives, codriven, codriver, codrivers, codrives, contrived, contriver, contrivers, contrives, deprived, depriver, deprivers, deprives, derived, deriver, derivers, derives, downriver, driveabilities, driveability, driveable, drivel, driveled, driveler, drivelers, driveline, drivelines, driveling, drivelled, drivelling, drivels, driven, drivenness, drivennesses, driver, driverless, drivers, drives. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crive, eive, erive, irev, irif, iriv, Irv, Irve, Krivak, Krivoy, privo, raiva, ravi, ravk, reev, reiv, reive, rerve, reve, revee, revem, revew, revi, revo, revu, revvy, Rfvi, riae, riav, ribe, rieve, rif, rige, Rinv, riqe, rire, Ritvo, riv, rivea, rivem, rivi, rivia, rivie, rivien, rivo, Rivox, rivue, rivy, riwe, rmif, rova, rovea, rovey, rovi, Rva, rvd, ryva, ryve, uriv. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: vier.

-1 letter: ire, rei, rev, vie.

-2 letters: er, re.

+1 letter: aiver, diver, drive, ervil, fiver, giver, jiver, liver, livre, reive, rived, riven, river, rives, rivet, siver, viers, viler, viper, vireo, vires, wiver.

+2 letters: aivers, arrive, cervid, cervix, derive, devoir, divers, divert, drivel, driven, driver, drives, envier, ervils, eviler, fervid, fivers, givers, grieve, grivet, invert, jivers, jivier, levier, liever, livers, livery, livier, livres, livyer, naiver, privet, quiver, ravine, regive, reived, reiver, reives, relive, renvoi, review, revile, revise, revive, riever, rivage, rivers, rivets, scrive, shiver, shrive, silver, sivers, skiver, sliver, stiver, strive, thrive, trivet, vainer, varied, varier, varies, veiler, veiner, venire, verbid, verdin, verier, verify, verily, verism, verist, verite, verity, vermin, vermis, vernix, viewer, vinery, vinier, vipers, vireos, virile, virtue, vivers, vizier, voicer, voider, waiver, wavier, wivern, wivers.