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rift🔊

A chasm or fissure.

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As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests.

A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance.

A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.

A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

To form a rift; to split open.

To cleave; to rive; to split.

(obsolete outside Scotland and northern UK) To belch.

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