rift

A chasm or fissure.

The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.

Where ashes are heaped in drifts / Over vineyard and field and town, / Whenever he starts and lifts / His head through the blackened rifts / Of the crags that keep him down

A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance.

My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.

Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, has opened a new rift with Donald Trump by denouncing the US president’s tax and spending bill as a “disgusting abomination”.

A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.

I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.

A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

To form a rift; to split open.

To cleave; to rive; to split.

to rift an oak

to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt

To belch.