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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How to use rift in a sentence?

1. Yair Seroussi:

   The implications of this rift go beyond personal matters.

2. Mike Tirico:

   He did n’t want to talk on camera, i can tell ya, I characterize Aaron as disappointed that news has come out of this rift with the Packers. He expressed a couple of times how much he loves Green Bay, loves the fans, loves the franchise. There is a chasm between management and the reigning NFL MVP. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.

3. Henry Hon:

   When a person's conscience alerts them to an offense that is causing a rift in a relationship, it is important to attempt to reconcile quickly with the offended person.

4. 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.

5. 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.