A chasm or fissure. / A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through. / A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

(intransitive) To form a rift; to split open. / (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.

(obsolete outside Scotland and northern UK) To belch.

past participle of rive

present participle of rift

simple past tense and past participle of rift

plural of rift

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rift

The Great Rift Valley, of East Africa.

(geology) Tthe eastern branch of the East African Rift fracture system, caused by the separation of the Somali plate from the Nubian plate.