rift
noun
1. a gap between cloud masses
- the sun shone through a rift in the clouds
Definition categories: object, gap, opening
2. a narrow fissure in rock
Definition categories: object, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure
3. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
Similar word(s): breach, break, rupture, severance
Definition categories: event, breakup, detachment, separation
Sentences with rift as a noun:
- 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.
verb
1. (intransitive) To form a rift.
2. (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
- to rift an oak
3. (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.
4. past participle of rive