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Rival vs Rivel - What's the difference?

rival | rivel |

In obsolete terms the difference between rival and rivel

is that rival is one having a common right or privilege with another; a partner while rivel is a wrinkle; a rimple.

In transitive terms the difference between rival and rivel

is that rival is to oppose or compete with while rivel is to cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.

As an adjective rival

is having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.

rival

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
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  • Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
  • (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.

    Derived terms

    * rivalry * archrival

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
    • rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions
  • * Macaulay
    • The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.

    Verb

  • To oppose or compete with.
    • to rival somebody in love
  • To be equal to or to surpass another.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
  • To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
  • * Dryden
    • to rival thunder in its rapid course

    Anagrams

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    rivel

    English

    Verb

    (rivell)
  • To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
  • To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.279:
    • they crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies […].

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wrinkle; a rimple.
    • (Holland)
  • (US) A kind of dumpling made from egg and wheat flour, often eaten in soup.

    • Anagrams

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