rift
/ɹɪft/
noun
- 1
A chasm or fissure.
“My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.”
- 2
A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
- 3
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
verb
- 1
To form a rift; to split open.
- 2
To cleave; to rive; to split.
“to rift an oak”
verb
- 1
(obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.
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