English-Swedish translations for rift

Definition of rift

• A chasm or fissure
• A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through
• A shallow place in a stream; a ford
• To form a #Noun|rift; to split open
• To belch

Examples

• My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we cant reconnect.
• The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earths surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
• to rift an oak
• The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift
• Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.

Related words

• drift
• snowdrift
• adrift
• drifter
• thrifty
• thrift
• driftwood
• drifting
• spendthrift