rive

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ɹaɪv/    /ɹaɪv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place torn; a rent; a rift.
  2. A bank or shore.
动词 v.
  1. To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. transitive
    — I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks[…]
  2. To land.
  3. To pierce or cleave with a weapon. archaic,transitive
    — And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her hād but[…]sodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
  4. To break apart; to split. intransitive
    — The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue[…].
  5. To burst open; explode; discharge. rare,transitive
    — Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery
  6. To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

词形变化

rives present,singular,third-person riving participle,present rived past rove past rave past rived participle,past rove participle,past rave participle,past riven participle,past rives plural rives plural

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
From Middle English riven (“to rive”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse rífa (“to rend, tear apart”), from Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (“to tear, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to crumble, tear”).
Cognate with Danish rive (“to tear”), Old Frisian rīva (“to tear”), Old English ārǣfan (“to let loose, unwrap”), Old Norse ript (“breach of contract, rift”), Norwegian Bokmål rive (“to tear”), Swedish riva (”to tear”) and Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”). More at rift.
词源 2
Compare Latin ripa (“shore”)
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