A chasm or fissure.
My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
To form a rift; to split open.
To cleave; to rive; to split.
to rift an oak
(obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.