Meaning of RIFT
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- [n] a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
- [n] a narrow fissure in rock
- [n] a gap between cloud masses; "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"
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| | Synonyms: | | breach, break, falling out, rupture, severance |
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| | See Also: | | breakup, cleft, crack, crevice, detachment, fissure, gap, opening, scissure, separation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Rift\, obs.
p. p. of {Rive}. --Spenser.
\Rift\, n. [Written also {reft}.] [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}.]
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.]
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