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rivel

UK/ˈɹɪvəl/

rivel verb: to shrivel, wrinkle (up).

Verb

rivel (third-person singular simple present rivels, present participle (US) riveling or (UK) rivelling, simple past and past participle (US) riveled or (UK) rivelled)

  1. (intransitive) To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
  2. (transitive) To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.
    • 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 […], New York Review of Books, 2001, p.279

Noun (1)

rivel (plural rivels)

  1. (obsolete) A wrinkle; a rimple.
    • It wanteth the due parching and ripening against the sunne: and by that meanes commeth short of the rivels and blacknesse that the outlandish pepper hath.1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XII.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […]...

Noun (2)

rivel (plural rivels)

  1. (US) A kind of small dumpling made from egg and wheat flour, often eaten in soup, especially among the Pennsylvania Dutch and other Germans.

rivel meaning in Urdu

rivel in Urdu

جھری پڑنا, شکن پڑنا, جھری ڈالنا, شکن ڈالنا

Forms of rivel

Verb
third-person singular presentrivels
present participle USriveling
present participle UKrivelling
past participle USriveled
past USriveled
past participle UKrivelled
past UKrivelled
Noun
pluralrivels

Origin of rivel

From Middle English rivelen, from Old English rifelan, riflian (“to wrinkle”), from a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *ribjōną (“to wrap; wind; roll; twist; coil”), equivalent to rive + -el (frequentative suffix). Related to Old Norse rifja (“to rake (hay) into rows or furrows”).

Probably from (Pennsylvania German, from) Palatine Rhine Franconian Riwwel, Ribbel, Riebel (compare Volga German Rievel, Ribel, Riebel).

Phrases with rivel

Questions about rivel

What does rivel mean?
Rivel means to shrivel, wrinkle (up).
What is rivel in Urdu?
Rivel in Urdu is جھری پڑنا, شکن پڑنا, جھری ڈالنا. See Rivel meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is rivel?
Rivel can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce rivel?
Rivel is pronounced /ˈɹɪvəl/ (UK).
What is the past tense of rivel?
The past tense of rivel is riveled.

Words near rivel in the dictionary

  1. Rivas
  2. rivastigmine
  3. rivayat
  4. rive
  5. rived
  6. rivel
  7. Rivelin
  8. riveling
  9. rivelings
  10. rivelled
  11. rivelling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rivel (page history and authors); rivel (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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