Definition of rift Rift

/ɹɪˈft/ - [rift] - rift

We found 16 definitions of rift from 5 different sources.

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What does rift mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: rifts

rift - a narrow fissure in rock
rift - a gap between cloud masses; "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"
rift - a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
  rupture, breach, break, severance, falling out
  breakup, detachment, separation the act of releasing from an attachment or connection
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • rift
    p. p. of Rive.
  • rift (n.)
    An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
  • rift (n.)
    A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
  • rift (v. t.)
    To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
  • rift (v. i.)
    To burst open; to split.
  • rift (v. i.)
    To belch.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • rift
    A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

Part of speech

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  • rift, verb, present, 1st person singular of rift (infinitive).
  • rift, verb (infinitive).
  • rift, noun, singular of rifts.

Pronunciation

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rift in sign language
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