rift
rift is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser.
- 2.A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
- 3.To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. Wordsworth.
- 4.To burst open; to split. Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. Bacon.
- 5.To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abra
- absence
- abysm
- abyss
- barranca
- between
- breach
- breachy
- break
- caesura
- canon
- chap
- chasm
- chink
- cleft
- clove
- crack
- cranny
- creek
- crevasse
- crevice
- cut
- defile
- dike
- far
- fissure
- flaw
- frith
- furrow
- gap
- gape
- gash
- gorge
- gulch
- gulf
- gully
- ha-ha
- hiatus
- hole
- incompleteness
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is rift.
- What is an opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser called?
- What is to cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. Wordsworth called?
- What is to burst open; to split. Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. Bacon called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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