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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

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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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How to use rift in a sentence?

  1. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:

    This rift in the EU is very deep, of strategic nature.

  2. Edwin Hubbel Chapin:

    Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order.

  3. Dr Shipton:

    You start to see things like decorated bones, beads made from marine shell or ostrich eggs, miniaturzied stone tools, and bones carved into things like arrow points. This is the oldest date we have for when this behavior is first observed, previous sites relating to this early period of modern humanbehaviorr have all been in South Africa and the East African Rift Valley, this is the first site on the coast of East Africa and the first with such a continuous record.

  4. Cory Mills:

    All of you in the media want do create this big rift. And I’ll tell you ahead of time that I’m not going to buy into it.

  5. 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.


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