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1. A split, crack, break or fissure in something
    
2. A gap between cloud masses
   "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"
    
3. A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
   "they hoped to avoid a rift in relations";
   - rupture, breach, break, severance, falling out
    
4. (geology) a major fault between areas of the earth's crust

1. Split or break apart
    
2. (geology) become separated or broken off by faulting and plate tectonics

Sounds like: ribboned, r, rift

Derived forms: rifted, rifting, rifts

Type of: breakup, cleft, crack, crevice, detachment, fissure, gap, opening, scissure, separation

Encyclopedia: Rift, West Virginia