rift

Plural: rifts

Noun

• a gap between cloud masses
  • "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"
• a narrow fissure in rock
• a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
• A chasm or fissure.
• A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance.
• A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
• A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

Verb

Verb Forms: rifted, rifting, rifts

• To form a fissure or a breach; to split apart.
• To form a rift; to split open.
• To cleave; to rive; to split.
• To belch.
• past participle of rive

Examples

• A single misplaced tile could RIFT apart a carefully planned Scrabble strategy.
• My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
• The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
• The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.
• to rift an oak

Synonyms

breach, break, falling out, rupture, severance

Anagrams of rift