Thesaurus: rift

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1. p. p. of Rive.
2. n. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
3. n. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
4. v. t. To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
5. v. i. To burst open; to split.
6. v. i. To belch.
7. n. a gap between cloud masses
8. n. a narrow fissure in rock
9. n. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
10. p. p. of Rive. Spenser. 1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser. 2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford. To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. Wordsworth. 1. To burst open; to split. Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. Bacon. 2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
11. p. p. of Rive. Spenser.
12. n:100 n. a gap between cloud masses n. a narrow fissure in rock