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Definition of Rife

Rife

  1. Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.
  2. Having power; active; nimble.

Rife Quotations

In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.
Julia Child

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
William Shatner

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
Alvin Ailey

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
Iain Duncan Smith

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.
Eric Bogosian
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Rife Translations

rife in Spanish is abundante
rife in Swedish is uppfylld, mycket vanlig

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