noun
- serious breaks or splits in friendly relations between people or groups
- deep cracks or fissures in rock, ice, or the ground
Usage: geological
Examples
- The political disagreement created deep rifts within the party.
- Family rifts often take years to heal.
- The earthquake opened several rifts in the mountainside.
- Ice rifts formed across the frozen lake.
- Their friendship never recovered from the rift caused by the argument.
- Geologists studied the volcanic rifts in the valley.
- The scandal caused rifts between former allies.