(v. t.) To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers.
(n.) A wrinkle; a rimple.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the famous Rivels clowns recently came to a leading Berlin music-hall with their act, which used to include a parody of Charlie Chaplin, the clown who played the mock Charlie abandoned his little moustache and bowler and appeared in another disguise.
(2) After the discussion of data they conclude for an absence of injury rivelable by morphometabolic areas integrity.
Riven
Definition:
() of Rive
() p. p. & a. from Rive.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has become clear that our diverse minorities are themselves diverse, often riven with internal conflict, with segments committed to political projects that are abhorrent to others both within and without those groupings.
(2) The council offered him a tea urn | Frances Ryan Read more Government attempts to decrease the disproportionately high levels of unemployment among disabled people have had little impact, the report notes, while notorious “fit-for-work” tests were riven with flaws.
(3) Bridging the Muslim-Christian divide and climate issues are major themes of the trip that also takes him to Uganda, which like Kenya has been a victim of extremist attacks, and the Central African Republic, a nation riven by sectarian conflict.
(4) But whereas the earlier book was set in a nameless African state, here the location is explicitly South Africa, where revolution has driven a white, liberal family out of Johannesburg into the protection of their servant, July, in a small village riven with its own conflicts which is none too happy to shelter them.
(5) The aim of fostering solidarity and forging common values across a continent that has so often been riven with conflict is an inspiring and uplifting one: count me in.
(6) Kiir’s SPLM is reportedly riven by infighting – a leadership convention at the weekend was postponed indefinitely at the last minute.
(7) The left has lost eight byelections for parliamentary seats and three local byelections in the last 12 months, while the rightwing UMP has been riven by its very public power struggles.
(8) Improving our tax collection would allow artisanal mining to boost local development.” Whether it's Mexico's gold or Zimbabwe's diamonds, mining is riven with violence and business is complicit Read more Anor is also working on setting up a national gold refinery that will be responsible for certifying and hallmarking gold for export.
(9) Libya , which has been riven by instability since the overthrow of Gaddafi, has had rival administrations since August 2014, when an alliance of Islamist-backed militias overran the capital, Tripoli, forcing the government to take refuge in the east.
(10) Transporting heavy building materials across dirt streets riven with gullies and piled high with detritus is not easy, and theft of building materials is commonplace in Kibera.
(11) No: the clear winner in this elite-loathing, privilege-hating, populism-riven island is surely the quiet billionaire: Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere , who emerges ever more obviously as the very antithesis of Lord C. He runs a successful, increasingly diversified business empire.
(12) The political establishment is riven by deep divisions, principally between economic reformers loyal to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and clerical arch-conservatives backed by the Revolutionary Guards and a wealthy, corrupt merchant class that has grown fat on the 1979 revolution.
(13) A scathing report into the BBC's handling of a shelved Newsnight exposé of Jimmy Savile revealed a culture of "suspicion and mistrust" at the corporation, riven by factions and in-fighting with "rigid management chains" that rendered it "completely incapable" of dealing with the scandal when it was exposed.
(14) But all were fiercely antagonistic during the election campaign and the new government looks riven with rivalries and disagreements.
(15) A former pine and hazel forest felled by stone age man, the Burren is a limestone desert riven by deep fissures and cracks in which tiny plants thrive.
(16) Contemplating an EU riven by currency crises, humiliated by Russia in Ukraine and Syria, and bitterly divided over migration policy, he now has even less cause to seek favour.
(17) In conflict-riven Somalia, for example, fierce unregulated competition has made mobiles affordable and prevalent, whereas internet penetration stands at 1.14% of the population.
(18) He used to be the speccy ginger herbert from Warrington riding his luck – always on the pull, forever on the lash, rarely riven by self-doubt.
(19) The book described Charles’s court as so riven by infighting that it is known by insiders as “Wolf Hall”, after Hilary Mantel’s fictional portrayal of Thomas Cromwell’s devious machinations on behalf of King Henry VIII.
(20) The BBC may be mired in scandal and riven by internal mistrust, but it could take a crumb of comfort from not being the only state broadcaster making headlines for the wrong reasons.