RIVE
- to tear or rend apart or be torn apart
- to separate by striking; split; cleave
- to rend, harrow, or distress (the feelings, heart, etc.)
- to split (wood) radially from a log
- to wrench open or tear apart or to pieces rend
- split with force or violence
- acture
- become split crack
- to tear apart [v RIVED, RIVEN, RIVEN, RIVES, RIVING]
- divide into pieces nations riven by civil war