Definitions for riven

riven riv·en

Spelling: [riv-uh n]
IPA: /ˈrɪv ən/

Riven is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in riven (einrv).

Definitions for riven

verb

  1. a past participle of rive.

adjective

  1. rent or split apart.
  2. split radially, as a log.

verb (used with object)

  1. to tear or rend apart:
  2. to separate by striking; split; cleave.
  3. to rend, harrow, or distress (the feelings, heart, etc.).
  4. to split (wood) radially from a log.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become rent or split apart:

Origin of riven

1225-75; Middle English riven Old Norse rīfa to tear, split. See rift

Examples for riven

The tower is riven, and it may be climbed along the edges of the crack.

The country is riven by tribalism, regionalism and a host of armed militias who so far have refused to disarm.

These things were supposed to protect Sweden from the class-and-ethnic conflict that has riven the United States, Britain, France.

The field was lackluster and riven by scandal (hello, Carlos Danger).

To the fugitives it was as if the whole world had suddenly been riven asunder.

And each side is riven by sharp internal divisions that make a deal difficult.

Dear oak-tree, you are riven by the storm-king's thunderbolt!

But on the French left — riven by ideological splits from competing centuries — that job is akin to herding cats.

Could I not have riven his body in sunder and strewn it on the waves?

His god appeared to be riven from him, and the revulsion in his mind was terrible.

Word Value for riven
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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