Rift

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A narrow fissure in rock.
  • n. A break in friendly relations: a rift between siblings.
  • verb-intransitive. To split open; break.
  • v. To cause to split open or break.
  • n. A shallow area in a waterway.
  • n. The backwash of a wave that has broken upon a beach.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A chasm or fissure.
  • n. A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
  • v. To form a rift.
  • v. To belch.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • p. p. of rive.
  • n. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
  • n. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
  • v. To cleave; to rive; to split
  • verb-intransitive. To burst open; to split.
  • verb-intransitive. To belch.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An opening made by riving or splitting; a fissure; a cleft or crevice; a chink.
  • n. A riving or splitting; a shattering.
  • To rive; cleave; split.
  • To make or effect by cleavage.
  • To burst open; split.
  • Split; specifically, following the general direction of the splitting or checking: said of a log: as, rift pine boards. Compare quartered, 4.
  • n. A veil; a curtain.
  • To belch.
  • n. A shallow place in a stream; a fording-place; also, rough water indicating submerged rocks.
  • n. In wood-working, a saw in which the cutting-teeth are placed at the ends of radial arms instead of upon the rim of a disk.
  • n. In geology, one of the principal cleavages or planes of weakness in building-stone, as quarried, of which the quarrymen take advantage. The two others, commonly occurring at right angles with it and with one another, are called the cut-off and the lift.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a narrow fissure in rock
  • n. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
  • n. a gap between cloud masses
  • Verb Form
    rifted    rifting    rifts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    scissure    crack    crevice    fissure    cleft    opening    gap   
    Variant
    rive   
    Form
    rifted    rifting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cleft    fissure    ford    cleave    rive    split    belch    deft    opening   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Clift    Shift    Swift    adrift    clift    drift    gift    lift    miffed    riffed   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fissure    chasm    gully    cleave    gash    gap    precipice    opening    crater    cleft