Rift

Quick meaning: Rift is a noun meaning A chasm or fissure.

Meaning

A chasm or fissure.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance.
2. A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
3. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
4. (intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
5. (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
6. past participle of rive
7. (obsolete outside Scotland and northern UK) To belch.

Example Sentences

to rift an oak

My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.

The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.

I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.

Word Forms

• rifts
• rifting
• rifted

Synonyms for rift

Depending on context, synonyms include break, breach, rupture, severance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include breach, rupture, break, severance, chink, cleft.

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