rift /ɹɪft/noun 4verb 3forms 3 noun4 •A chasm or fissure.The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones. •(figurative) A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance.My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect. •A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn. — 1931 •A shallow place in a stream; a ford. verb3 •To form a rift; to split open. •To cleave; to rive; to split.to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt — 1610 •To belch. formsrifted · rifting · rifts
