noun
- A gap between cloud masses.
- usage: "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"
- A narrow fissure in rock.
- A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions. )
- usage: "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
- synonyms: rupture, breach, break, severance, falling out
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