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

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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

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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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