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).
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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(61) Between them formed several long, narrow lakes and then, as the rift deepened, a wide ocean channel.
(62) Crucially, a rift developed between a local strike leadership and the trade union's national officials.
(63) The rift between conventional and complementary medicine has had many harmful effects.
(64) Don't let the boys know that they have the power to cause a rift between you and your husband.
(65) Vertical dashed lines enclose periods of contemporaneous high lake levels and elevated geothermal activity on rift volcanoes.
(66) Theo's visit was intended by both brothers to heal a rift which had developed between them.
(67) Have you been staring at something long enough to cause a rift in your faith?
(68) Further evidence contradicting the traditional symmetric rift valley model comes from observations of their morphology and surface structure.
(69) Carboniferous sediments have been affected by low-amplitude Hercynian folding,[www.Sentencedict.com] Mesozoic rift faulting and Cretaceous inversion-related compression and fault re-activation.
(70) The rift between the two doctors had grown steadily wider as the siege progressed.
(71) The family arguments finally caused a rift between the mother and daughter that has not yet healed.
(72) Hodge lamented the rift between the military government and the rightists after their earlier cooperation.
(73) A rift has opened up within the leadership of the parliament, which could be the beginning of the end for it.
(74) Many in the legal profession hoped that the Committee would help heal the rift between the two branches of the legal profession.
(75) Reinvaded in August 1998 after a rift with Mobutu's successor, Laurent Kabila.
(76) The telephone line from San Antonio to Boston is crackling with the static of an ideological rift.
(77) A few weeks later, the two old and broken men moved to heal their twenty-year rift.
(78) But our rift over the inevitable difficulties of coed armed forces remains.
(79) City Notebook, page 13 Government rift over 999 dispute *.
(80) About 10 million years before that, another rift began along what is now the southern shore of the Arabian peninsula.
(81) The reported rift between Kohl and Chirac may mark one of the turning points of the decade.
(82) November 3: A picture of the couple reveals the depth of the rift.
(83) Dole denied any rift in Republican ranks as congressional leaders and Clinton prepared to resume their negotiations last night.
(84) The rift between the two men was particularly painful since they had been so close at first.
(85) Annie and George meanwhile kept Jonna in the forefront of their conversations with Jonadab, behaving as though the rift had never occurred.
(86) The consequences of that rift have been thrown into sharp relief by the present crisis.
(87) Meanwhile, ministers rallied in a concerted effort to denounce rumours of a rift between Mr Lawson and Margaret Thatcher.
(88) A rift opened between Lloyd George and Poincare.
(89) What is this rift caused by?
(90) The rift within the party deepened.