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riveverb to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forciblyroad pavement that had been riven by the annual freeze-and-thaw cycle break, break up, bust, disintegrate, dismember, disrupt, fracture, fragment atomize, crush, grind, powder, pulverize, reduceblast, blow up, burst, detonate, explodecrack, pop, shatter, shiver, smashchip, sliver, splinter, splitimplodedestroy, ruin, wreck doctor, fix, heal, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at itthe bitter disappointment threatened to rive my heart in two rend, ribbon, rip, shred, tatter, tear break, cleave, rupture, splitcut, gash, incise, lacerate, slashbutcher, dismember, dissect, hack, mangle tear, rip, rend, split, cleave, rive mean to separate forcibly.tear implies pulling apart by force and leaving jagged edges.tear up the letter rip implies a pulling apart in one rapid uninterrupted motion often along a line or joint.ripped the shirt on a nail rend implies very violent or ruthless severing or sundering.an angry mob rent the prisoner's clothes split implies a cutting or breaking apart in a continuous, straight, and usually lengthwise direction or in the direction of grain or layers.split logs for firewood cleave implies very forceful splitting or cutting with a blow.a bolt of lightning cleaved the giant oak rive occurs most often in figurative use.a political party riven by conflict in the 14th century |