1. rift - Noun
2. rift - Verb
p. p. of Rive.
An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
To burst open; to split.
To belch.
Source: Webster's dictionaryKnow the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them. Marcus Aurelius
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. John Keats
We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other. Grandmaster Flash
Even if I were to kiss and hug Anwar Ibrahim in public, they will say there is a rift because this is what they want to see. Mahathir bin Mohamad
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. Robert Louis Stevenson
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks. Peter Fonda