rift
noun
an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
rifted
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past participleof rift.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof rift.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
riftnounan opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
Example Sentences
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"In essence, we now have a front row seat to observe a critical rifting phase that had fundamentally shaped all rifted margins across the world," says co-author Folarin Kolawole, who is also with Lamont.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
This region was rifted apart during the breakup of the supercontinent Columbia, after which sedimentation continued on the western margin of Laurentia with the deposition of the Windermere Group.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
When Columbia rifted apart, the division happened within the area of the Purcell/Belt rocks.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The view of how mountains were built and seabeds stretched and rifted, and how continents oozed out of place and out of shape, was itself shifting, upthrusting, subducting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some were rifted by the tempests, and bared their scathed and bleached tops to the winds of heaven.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
