How to pronounce “rive”

Meaning

• [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.
• (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
• (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
• [Noun]
• A place torn; a rent; a rift.

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