1 a serious disagreement between people that stops their relationship from continuing:
The rift within the party deepens. * a serious marriage rift * Efforts to heal the rift between the two countries have failed.
2 a large crack or opening in the ground, rocks or clouds:
Through a rift in the clouds we could see a beautiful blue sky. * The volcano was in a remote area of the northern rift, accessible only by helicopter.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rift is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rift a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rift is tagged as noun.
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