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rive

/rahyv/US // raɪv //UK // (raɪv) //

驱使,驾驭,驱赶,驱车

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    rived, rived or riv·en, riv·ing.

    • : to tear or rend apart: to rive meat from a bone.
    • : to separate by striking; split; cleave.
    • : to rend, harrow, or distress.
    • : to split radially from a log.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    rived, rived or riv·en, riv·ing.

    • : to become rent or split apart: stones that rive easily.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbtear
Forms: riven
verbbreak
Forms: riven

Examples

  • The area is riven by drought — the environment’s loss, but researchers’ gain, since it helps expose the fossils.

  • We were riven by political divides, but over time, these may come to seem less important as we move to the other side of our collective traumas.

  • The fight over Dominion and its influence has riven Virginia politics in recent years.

  • Responsibility for their inoculation, meanwhile, will fall to a public health system maimed by budget cuts and riven by racial and other inequities.

  • The president, GOP senators and his advisers have been riven over what to offer in terms of immigration throughout his presidency.

  • I was wearing a lacy black nightgown and Rive Gauche by St. Laurent when I let him in.

  • The quaint methods of previous witnesses are amplified by M. de la Rive.

  • M. de la Rive must therefore on all counts of his evidence be ruled out of court as a witness.

  • I do not know of a more insidious temptation to buy what you do not need than loitering along the quais of the Rive Gauche.

  • Mr. Ionides says that once, on the rive gauche, they met Murger, and Whistler introduced him.

  • George de Rive, in alarm, convoked the magistrates of all the districts in the earldom.