| 单词 | rive |
| 释义 | rive I. transitive verb 1. a. < great gray masses of cloud, riven by the hurricane — William Black > b. < new highways riving the green — Donald Davidson > c. < riven pinnacles of stone gnawed by the waves into bizarre shapes — Norman Douglas > d. < not dug by the hand of man, these tunnels, but riven by nature — I.L.Idriess > e. (1) < were riven with fears and alarms about subversion at home — Reinhold Niebuhr > < the union is riven with discord — Earl Brown > < bellows of triumph rive the night — H.H.Martin > (2) < a country so often riven by earthquakes — G.B.Sansom > < detrital beds … riven by a series of faults — American Guide Series: Maryland > specifically < where massive rock … is exposed in polar regions and on high mountain summits, frost riving is the dominant weathering process — O.D.Von Engeln > < brecciated bedrock, perhaps largely frost-riven — Journal of Geology > 2. a. < cloak riven from his back > — often used with off or away < bark of the trunk was riven off > < a few stout heaves rived off the upper part of the lid — Harvey Graham > b. < storms … that rive the trunks of tallest cedars down — Thomas Otway > c. < huge rocks, riven by frost action from the side of the mountain — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > 3. < all thoughts to rive the heart are here — A.E.Housman > < his soul does not appear to have been riven by a consciousness of sin — H.O.Taylor > < a sudden craving rived him to be working again — Richard Llewellyn > < was plainly riven by anger — T.R.Fyvel > 4. < hand-riven shingles > < rived staves > — often used with out < went to work on those old cypress logs, sawing, chopping, hewing, and riving out boards to cover the house — Marjory S. Douglas > 5. Scotland intransitive verb 1. < the oak … riving and splitting round about the passage of the bullet — Thomas Fuller > 2. < he prays you as his heart would rive … to save his dear son's soul alive — D.G.Rossetti > Synonyms: see tear II. 1. dialect England 2. dialect England |
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