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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of rive.

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Examples

  • With his own hands he "rived" the planks, made the coffin, and buried Nancy Hanks, that remarkable woman.

    The Life of Abraham Lincoln Henry Ketcham

  • The chimney at the end of the building was of sticks and clay while the roof was of "rived" shingles.

    Boy Scouts in Southern Waters 1909

  • So there I was like groping in the hallway as the millicents ar - rived.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Endorsement of Michael R. Bloomberg a week ago by Democrat Cory A. Booker, the mayor of New Jersey's largest, historically race-rived city, Newark, might strike some as odd.

    Michael Henry Adams: Voluntary Slavery 2009

  • Rove can also be taken, along with “rived”, as past-tense for “rive”: “to split or tear apart violently”, as to split up wood with an axe or shatter stone with a sledge-hammer.

    Think Progress » Defending Bush’s Veto, Rove Grossly Distorts Stem Cell Science 2006

  • But beyond the mechanical breakdown, Kilpatrick's salacious, headline-commandeering controversy has inflamed the racial tensions that have rived this region.

    Friends Like These 2008

  • How can foreign forces bring peace to countries rived by brutal war without becoming a party to the conflict?

    The Thin Blue Line 2008

  • All genomes are structured in such a way that exactly matches what you would expect from bng rived from an earlier common ancestor to other species.

    Teach the Controversy James F. McGrath 2008

  • They were persuaded to take the remaining treasure and sink it at a secret location in the harbour before the Crusaders ar rived.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • They were persuaded to take the remaining treasure and sink it at a secret location in the harbour before the Crusaders ar rived.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

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