rift /ˈrɪft/
 裂口,隙縫,切口(vi.)裂開(vt.)分開,割開,穿透


 Rift, n. [Written also reft.]
 1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
 2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.


 Rift obs. p. p. of Rive.


 Rift, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rifting.] To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
    To dwell these rifted rocks between.   --Wordsworth.


 Rift, v. i.
 1. To burst open; to split.
    Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance.   --Bacon.
 2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

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 rift
      n 1: a gap between cloud masses; "the sun shone through a rift in
           the clouds"
      2: a narrow fissure in rock
      3: a personal or social separation (as between opposing
         factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
         [syn: rupture, breach, break, severance, {falling
         out]