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Lacerate vs Rive - What's the difference?

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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

(lacerat)
  • To tear, rip or wound.
  • To thoroughly defeat; to thrash
  • * {{quote-news
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    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
  • The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.
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    rive

    English

    Verb

  • To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks
  • To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
  • * :
  • 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
  • (label) To break apart; to split.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vi:
  • The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue .
  • * (1665-1728)
  • Freestone rives , splits, and breaks in any direction.
  • In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
  • Synonyms

    * (to rend asunder) cleave, rend, split

    See also

    * rip * rib

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place torn; a rent; a rift.
  • Synonyms

    * (a place torn) rent, rift ----