Riven

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Split; rent or burst asunder.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • p. p. & a. from rive.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Past participle of rive
  • adjective. torn apart
  • adjective. broken into pieces; split asunder
  • Word Usage
    "He also assumed that the England dressing room was by definition riven with cliques, self-interest and hostility to newcomers."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cleft  
    variant
    rive  
    verb-stem
    rive