rive | Definition of rive

Synonyms and Antonyms of rive

1 to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly

road pavement that had been riven by the annual freeze-and-thaw cycle

Synonyms of rive

break, break up, bust, disintegrate, dismember, disrupt, fracture, fragment

Words Related to rive

atomize, crush, grind, powder, pulverize, reduce

blast, blow up, burst, detonate, explode

crack, pop, shatter, shiver, smash

chip, sliver, splinter, split

destroy, ruin, wreck

Near Antonyms of rive

doctor, fix, heal, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair

2 to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it

the bitter disappointment threatened to rive my heart in two

Synonyms of rive

rend, ribbon, rip, shred, tatter, tear

Words Related to rive

break, cleave, rupture, split

cut, gash, incise, lacerate, slash

butcher, dismember, dissect, hack, mangle