Usually means: A break in friendly relations.
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  1. rift: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rift: Merriam-Webster
  3. rift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rift, rift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rift: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rift: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rift, rift: Wordnik
  8. rift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rift: Wiktionary
  10. rift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rift: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. rift: Dictionary.com
  14. rift: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rift: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. RIFT, Rift (album), Rift (disambiguation), Rift (geology), Rift (video game), Rift, The Rift (Allan novel), The Rift (Star Trek), The Rift (Williams novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rift: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rift: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rift: Rhymezone
  20. rift: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rift: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rift: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rift: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rift: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rift (geology), rift: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rift (geology), rift: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RIFT: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  2. rift: Natural History Terms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rift: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. rift: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
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(Note: See rifted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A chasm or fissure.
noun:  A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance.
noun:  A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
noun:  A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
verb:  (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
verb:  (obsolete outside Scotland and northern UK) To belch.

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