Definitions
1.nounA chasm or fissure."My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect."
2.nounA break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
3.nounA shallow place in a stream; a ford.
4.verbTo form a rift; to split open.
5.verbTo cleave; to rive; to split."to rift an oak"
6.verb(obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.