Definitions for rift

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IPA: /rɪft/

Rift is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in rift (firt).

Definitions for rift

noun

1. an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
2. an open space, as in a forest or cloud mass, or a clear interval.
3. a break in friendly relations:
4. a difference in opinion, belief, or interest that causes such a break in friendly relations.
5. Geology. a fault. a graben of regional extent.
6. the plane or direction along which a log or mass of granite can most easily be split.
7. wood or a piece of wood that has been split radially from a log.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to burst open; split.

Origin of rift

1250-1300; Middle English Old Norse ript breaking of an agreement (compare Danish, Norwegian rift cleavage), derivative of rīfa to tear (cognate with rive)

Examples for rift

Presently there was a rift in the clouds; and a red glow arose in the west.

To-day, however, there was a rift in these dark clouds of consequence.

Hagel sought to downplay any rift in a statement to Defense Department employees.

And then, because he could not shout and because he could not loosen himself, there came a rift in his madness.

The rift put Washington at odds with countries like Brazil, Uruguay or Chile, which seemed to have come to terms with their past.

But the rift was, not least, a matter of personalities and egos.

Her mother made demands about a big ceremony and caused a rift between them.

They believed the range might yet show a rift at this end which their wagons could traverse.

The rift was gradually widening, and the forest on either side thinned.

But if the rift with Iran widens, it could become a shadow enemy in Syria as the U.S. begins its war there.