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rift¹
- /ɹɪft/
Sounds like riffed · Rhymes with -ɪft
Where it comes from
From Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.
noun rifts
- A chasm or fissure. The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance. My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through. I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
- A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
verb rifts · rifting · rifted
- To form a rift; to split open.
- To cleave; to rive; to split. to rift an oak
rift²
- /ɹɪft/
Sounds like riffed · Rhymes with -ɪft
Where it comes from
From Old Norse rypta.
verb rifts · rifting · rifted
- To belch.
rift³
- /ɹɪft/
Sounds like riffed · Rhymes with -ɪft
verb
- past participle of rive The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: breach, rupture, break, severance, falling out, chink, cleft, fissure, cleavage, leakage, scission, splintering, leak, splitting, flaw, fracturing
Translations
Talk about this word "rift." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/rift. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. rift. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/rift "rift." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/rift.Cite this
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title = {rift},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rift},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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