rift

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/ɹɪft/

noun 4verb 3

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(noun.)

ADJ

deep, growing, serious | public | ideological | marital, marriage

VERB + RIFT

cause, create, lead to

deepen, widen

The disagreement between the two friends continued to widen the rift that had formed last year.

heal, mend, patch up, repair

RIFT + VERB

develop, occur, open up

A serious rift developed between the two brothers after their father's death.

deepen, grow, widen

PREP

~ among/between

The disagreement created a growing rift among the members of the team.

~ in/within

A serious disagreement created a rift in their friendship that lasted for years.

~ over

The two friends developed a serious rift over who should pay for the broken window.

~ with

After years of arguing, she finally wanted to repair the rift with her estranged sister.

Definitions

noun

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.

verb

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

verb

To belch.

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Synonyms

noun — a personal or social separation (as between opposing faction

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

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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

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As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forest

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to rift an oak

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

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The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell these rifted rocks between.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, rift is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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