Definition of Rift

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Definition of Rift

Rift

p. p. of Rive.

An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.

A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.

To burst open; to split.

To belch.

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Rift Quotations

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
Ernest Shackleton

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.
Peter Fonda

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
Walter Jon Williams

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.
Grandmaster Flash

Rift Translations

rift in Swedish is reva

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