Definitions
a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
Word origin
From Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.
Used in a sentence
“The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.”
“Where ashes are heaped in drifts / Over vineyard and field and town, / Whenever he starts and lifts / His head through the blackened rifts / Of the crags that keep him down”
“As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Split or gap”4 letters
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