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rive (v.)
"tear in pieces, strike asunder," c. 1200, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse
rifa
"to tear apart" (compare Swedish
rifva
, Danish
rive
"scratch, tear"), from PIE root
*rei-
"to scratch, tear, cut" (see
riparian
).
