Lacerate vs Rive - What's the difference?
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To tear, rip or wound.
To thoroughly defeat; to thrash
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(botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
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(label) To break apart; to split.
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* (1665-1728)
In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
Lacerate is a related term of rive.
As verbs the difference between lacerate and rive
is that lacerate is to tear, rip or wound while rive is .As an adjective lacerate
is (botany) jagged, as if torn or lacerated.lacerate
English
Verb
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Adjective
(-)- The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.
rive
English
Verb
- I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks
- And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her h?d butsodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
- The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue .
- Freestone rives , splits, and breaks in any direction.