'Rift' definitions:
Definition of 'rift'
(from WordNet)
noun
A gap between cloud masses; "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"
noun
A narrow fissure in rock
noun
A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out]
Definition of 'Rift'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Rift'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Rift'
From: GCIDE
- Rift \Rift\, v. i.
- 1. To burst open; to split. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rift'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysm,
- abyss,
- alienation,
- arroyo,
- birthmark,
- blackhead,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blister,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- breach of friendship,
- break,
- breakage,
- broach,
- bug,
- bulla,
- burst,
- canyon,
- catch,
- cavity,
- chap,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- chinky,
- chip,
- cicatrix,
- cleavage,
- cleave,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- cloven,
- col,
- comedo,
- conflict,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- crack,
- cracked,
- cranny,
- crater,
- craze,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- cut,
- cut open,
- cwm,
- defacement,
- defect,
- defection,
- deficiency,
- defile,
- deformation,
- deformity,
- dehiscent,
- dell,
- difference,
- dike,
- disaffection,
- disagreement,
- disfavor,
- disfiguration,
- disfigurement,
- dispart,
- disruption,
- distance,
- distortion,
- disunion,
- disunity,
- ditch,
- divaricate,
- divergence,
- divide,
- dividedness,
- division,
- donga,
- draw,
- drawback,
- estrangement,
- excavation,
- failing,
- failure,
- falling-out,
- fault,
- faute,
- fissure,
- fissured,
- fissury,
- flaw,
- flume,
- fly open,
- foible,
- fracture,
- frailty,
- freckle,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gaping,
- gappy,
- gash,
- gorge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- hemangioma,
- hiatus,
- hickey,
- hole,
- imperfection,
- inadequacy,
- incise,
- incision,
- infirmity,
- interruption,
- interval,
- joint,
- keloid,
- kink,
- kloof,
- lay open,
- leak,
- lentigo,
- little problem,
- milium,
- moat,
- mole,
- needle scar,
- nevus,
- notch,
- nullah,
- ope,
- open,
- open rupture,
- open up,
- opening,
- part,
- pass,
- passage,
- pimple,
- pit,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- port-wine mark,
- port-wine stain,
- problem,
- pustule,
- ravine,
- recall of ambassadors,
- rent,
- rime,
- rimose,
- rimulose,
- rip,
- rive,
- rupture,
- scab,
- scale,
- scar,
- schism,
- scissure,
- scratch,
- seam,
- sebaceous cyst,
- separate,
- separation,
- shortcoming,
- slash,
- slice,
- slit,
- slot,
- snag,
- something missing,
- splinter,
- split,
- spread,
- spread out,
- spring open,
- strawberry mark,
- sty,
- swing open,
- taint,
- tap,
- tear,
- tear open,
- throw open,
- track,
- trench,
- twist,
- valley,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- void,
- vulnerable place,
- wadi,
- wale,
- warp,
- wart,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness,
- weal,
- welt,
- wen,
- whitehead