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rift |
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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