Definitions
1.NounA chasm or fissure."The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones."
2.NounA lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance."My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect."
3.NounA break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
4.NounA shallow place in a stream; a ford.
5.VerbTo form a rift; to split open.
6.VerbTo cleave; to rive; to split."to rift an oak"
7.VerbTo belch.
8.Verbpast participle of rive"The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged riftDoth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift."