Synonym: alienation, breach, break, cleft, crack, crevice, difference, estrangement, falling-out, fissure, fracture, gap, parting, separation, split. Similar words: drift, thrift, rift valley, lift, gift, shift, fifth, fifty. Meaning: [rɪft] n. 1. a gap between cloud masses 2. a narrow fissure in rock 3. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions).
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(31) The rift between the two was never really healed, and from the 1930s onwards they pursued their separate paths.
(32) There are significant differences in the morphology and degree of volcanic activity associated with these two types of rift.
(33) The major differences in rift characteristics relate to their position with respect to plate boundaries and the intensity of volcanic activity associated with them.
(34) But the longer it rumbles on, the more likely it is to cause a permanent rift.
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(35) The other main rift type is to be found orientated approximately at right angles to the strike of intercontinental collision orogens.
(36) Strickland has wanted out since last season, when his rift with Carlesimo began.
(37) Viacom employees said they were surprised because they had no clues of any rift between Redstone and his top lieutenant.
(38) He admitted taking his hand off the tiller at the group but denied any boardroom rift over strategy.
(39) But at least the rift with Rough Trade appeared to have been solved.
(40) Understand the lesson in this for you, and heal the rift between you.
(41) Seafloor spreading becomes tangible in the rift valleys of the mid-ocean ridges.
(42) If any of this caused a rift between Anna and her mother, neither has let on.
(43) Upland masses exist on either side of a central rift valley.
(44) Laurie Mains is at the centre of efforts to heal the rift between players and media.
(45) The decision opens the biggest policy rift yet between Holyrood and Westminster.
(46) Enjoy the scenic drive along the floor of the Great Rift Valley[sentencedict.com], with a picnic lunch enroute.
(47) The rift between them is now so bitter, it is believed they will take the final step as soon as possible.
(48) The Rift Valley, the scene of the clashes involving Moi's minority Kalenjin people, was described a war zone.
(49) But she had been fond of Moira, and guessed how much anguish the rift in the family must have caused her.
(50) Living in the rift caused by such a foundation quake is his ambition for your life.
(51) Another moment it's retouch with a decorator's brush, load every rift with pigment, and so on.
(52) Some rift valleys are analogous to mid-oceanic ridges in experiencing shallow earthquakes and volcanicity.
(53) It took a good five years for the rift within the party to mend.
(54) They have all been trapped by the high rift walls that fence in the plain.
(55) This episode reveals a deep and continuing rift between the descendants of Oswiu and the kings of Leodwald's line.
(56) But there are signs of a growing rift in his regime.
(57) As you can imagine, the bequest has caused a deep rift between them.
(58) Care should be taken when dealing with loved ones as a rift could form if you are too argumentative.
(59) These may correspond to a period of high lake levels found elsewhere in the rift.
(60) The rift was revealed yesterday when a charge that he attacked lover Joanna Gibson was dropped at her request in court.