Definition of rift
English to English noun - a gap between cloud masses
The sun shone through a rift in the clouds.
source: WordNet 3.0 - a narrow fissure in rock
source: WordNet 3.0 - a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
They hoped to avoid a break in relations.
source: WordNet 3.0 - An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
source: Webster 1913 verb - To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
source: Webster 1913 - To burst open; to split.
source: Webster 1913
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rift, reft, raft, ruft, rafty, refut, rivet, refit, rabbit, refute, refait, rfd, riptide, rip out, rarebit, rapt, rubaiyat, rhabdite, rarified, rabidity
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