Definitions of rive

1. To be rent.

2. To split or tear apart.

3. To rend or split, as timber.

4. To tear asunder: to split.

5. To be split or rent asunder.

6. To be split asunder:- pa. t. rived; pa. p. rived, riven.

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

8. To rend asunder by force.

9. Riving.

10. Riven.

11. A place torn; a rent; a rift.

12. A rent or tear.

13. Rived.