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What Does Rive Mean?

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The word rive when used as a transitive verb means rending or tearing apart. It could mean breaking into pieces, such as by a blow. In this sense of the term it may mean to cleave or to split asunder. It could mean breaking or distressing (the spirit, for instance). As an intransitive verb it means to be or become split.

In other words it means tear or be torn violently. Synonyms for the same include the words rend, rip, pull, cleave, shatter, fracture, crack, tear and split. Rive is also the name of a few places. For instance, it may refer to Rive (VC), which is a town located in Piedmont, Italy. There is also a town by the name of Rive d'Arcano situated in Friuli-Venezia Guilia, Italy.

The term rive has its roots in the Middle English term riven; coming from the Old Norse rifa.

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