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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rift  \Rift\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Rifted};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Rifting}.] 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rift  \Rift\,  v.  i. 
  1.  To  burst  open  to  split.  --Shak. 
 
  Timber  .  .  .  not  apt  to  rif  with  ordnance.  --Bacon. 
 
  2.  To  belch.  [Prov.  Eng.  &  Scot.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rift  \Rift\,  n.  [Written  also  {reft}.]  [Dan.  rift,  fr  rieve  to 
  rend.  See  {Rive}.] 
  1.  An  opening  made  by  riving  or  splitting;  a  cleft;  a 
  fissure.  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  A  shallow  place  in  a  stream;  a  ford. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rift  \Rift\,  obs. 
  p.  p.  of  {Rive}.  --Spenser. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rift 
  n  1:  a  gap  between  cloud  masses;  "the  sun  shone  through  a  rift  in 
  the  clouds" 
  2:  a  narrow  fissure  in  rock 
  3:  a  personal  or  social  separation  (as  between  opposing 
  factions);  "they  hoped  to  avoid  a  break  in  relations" 
  [syn:  {rupture},  {breach},  {break},  {severance},  {falling 
  out}] 




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