Synonyms for rift
rɪftrift

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1. riftnoun

   a gap between cloud masses

   "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"

   Synonyms:
   rupture, falling out, severance, break, breach

2. riftnoun

   a narrow fissure in rock

   Synonyms:
   rupture, falling out, severance, break, breach

3. rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling outnoun

   a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

   "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"

   Synonyms:
   recess, good luck, fault, prison-breaking, breakout, fracture, suspension, break of serve, happy chance, respite, geological fault, faulting, gaolbreak, shift, interruption, time out, severance, pause, open frame, breach, disruption, jailbreak, gap, severing, falling out, prisonbreak, breaking, breakage, rupture, intermission, break

Matched Categories

1. • Fissure
   • Opening
   • Separation

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1. riftnoun

   Synonyms:
   cleft, fissure, crack, rent, breach, fracture, break, gap, opening, chink, crevice, cranny

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1. riftnoun

   Synonyms:
   cleft, fissure, crack, gap, crevice, cranny, break, chink

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1. List of paraphrases for "rift":

   rifting, bifida, crack, divide, gap, split, breccia, fault, cleavage, fracture, schism, distension, chasm, fissure, disagreement

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1. Brooks Dunn:

   There was never a rift, we [broke up] because we’d been doing it for over 20 years and felt like we’d accomplished everything that we could.

2. Stewart Pearce:

   Two brothers have had a disagreement – this is not a rift, a feud or a battle, brothers disagree… They’re muscling up to their own power. And people are outrage that the British heritage is changing. Well, of course, it needs to change. They’re removing themselves from the private mystique that the royal family has always upheld… It’s unfortunate that it’s being projected in a certain way, that we’re hearing more from distant royal observers. But I believe there’s something that needs to be healed and they’re moving into that territory.

3. Stewart Pearce:

   Two brothers have had a disagreement – this is not a rift, a feud or a battle, brothers disagree… They’re muscling up to their own power. And people are outrage that the British heritage is changing. Well, of course, it needs to change.

4. Vice President Joe Biden:

   If we build walls and disrespect our neighbors, we will quickly see all this progress evaporating, replaced by a return of anti-Americanism, a corrosive rift throughout our hemisphere.

5. Robert Louis Stevenson:

   The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.