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RIFT
rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out
(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); “they hoped to avoid a break in relations”
rift
(noun) a narrow fissure in rock
rift
(noun) a gap between cloud masses; “the sun shone through a rift in the clouds”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
rift (plural rifts)
A chasm or fissure.
A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc, which allows light through.
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
Verb
rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)
(intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
(transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
Etymology 2
Verb
rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)
(obsolete, outside, Scotland and northern UK) To belch.
Etymology 3
Verb
rift (obsolete)
past participle of rive
Anagrams
• FTIR, frit
Source: Wiktionary
Rift, obs.
Definition: p. p. of Rive. Spenser.
Rift, n. [Written also reft.] Etym: [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.]
Definition: 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.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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