rive
Split with force
To rive is to tear apart violently or split asunder: Lightning rived the oak.
The word is literary and archaic, surviving mainly in past participle form: a heart riven by grief, a nation riven by civil war.
Riven suggests forceful, dramatic separation—wood split along the grain, rock cleaved by earthquake, communities torn by conflict.
Tear apart violently
rupture · tear apart · shred · lacerate · gash · slash · pull apart · wrench
Crushing emotional pain
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- devastateDestroy thoroughly and completely
wound · pain · agony · distress · suffering · trauma · wrench · pierce
rend
Tear apart violently
sunder · rupture · tear apart · shred · lacerate · gash · slash · pull apart · wrench · break open
heartbreak
Crushing emotional pain
devastate · wound · pain · agony · distress · suffering · trauma · wrench · pierce · shatter
split
Separation into parts
wedge · maul · firewood · kindling · grain · cleave · hew · chop · splitter · cord
separate
To set apart
halve · sever · detach · disjoin · disconnect · fork · branch · bifurcate · diverge · partition
- river channelPath carved by flow
- the riverLarge natural stream
- holy riverReligiously venerated waterway
- river tubingRecreational waterway floating
- lazy riverGentle artificial waterway
- river erosionWater wearing away earth
river, arrive, driver, arrival, derive, arriving, arrived, derived, drivers