0 to cut something apart with great force:
It may thus be seen that the riving of the heart by the sword symbolises the final rupture of Daughter from Mother.
Such conclusions have begun a debate that has increasingly riven archaeologists.
But already news of the majority's wishes has rived the district.
The hatreds that rive the small band of women MPs have to be experienced to be believed.
The controversy about Blackwater has riven the community's social fabric.
In this sense, the 18th-century analyses relied on an abstract sor t of reason rather than experience as a means of ar riving at cer titude.
Even in communities apparently riven by strife between ' godly ' and ' conservative ' groups it is far from clear that the parties in dispute held unswervingly to homogeneous religious positions.
The cars became a joke, no one wanted to buy them and the company was riven by strikes and restrictive practices.
Regrettably, like international rugby, it has been greatly riven by politics.
