Definitions for: Rift

[n] a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
[n] a narrow fissure in rock
[n] a gap between cloud masses; "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"

Webster (1913) Definition: Rift, obs.
p. p. of Rive. --Spenser.

Rift, n. [Written also reft.] [Dan. rift, fr. rieve to
rend. See Rive.]
1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a
fissure. --Spenser.

2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

Rift, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rifted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rifting.]
To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock;
to rift the clouds. --Longfellow.

To dwell these rifted rocks between. --Wordsworth.

Rift, v. i.
1. To burst open; to split. --Shak.

Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. --Bacon.

2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rupture, severance

See Also: breakup, cleft, crack, crevice, detachment, fissure, gap, opening, scissure, separation

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