Meaning

• 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.

Meaning

• To form a rift; to split open.

• To cleave; to rive; to split.

  "to rift an oak"