Usually means: Tear apart; split or rend.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. rive: Merriam-Webster
  2. rive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rive, rive: Wordnik
  7. rive: Wiktionary
  8. rive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. rive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. rive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Rive, rive: Dictionary.com
  12. Rive (video game), Rive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Rive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. rive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. rive: Rhymezone
  16. Rive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. rive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. rive: FreeDictionary.org
  19. rive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. rive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rive: Legal dictionary

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  1. rive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. RIVE: Acronym Finder
  3. rive: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rive: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rived as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Rive)

verb:  (transitive, archaic except in past participle) To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
verb:  (intransitive) To break apart; to split.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To burst open; explode; discharge.
verb:  (woodworking) To use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
noun:  A place torn; a rent; a rift.
noun:  A bank or shore.
verb:  To land.
noun:  A surname from French.

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