Word Finder - rift

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A chasm or fissure.

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My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.

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A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.

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A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

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To form a rift; to split open.

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To cleave; to rive; to split.

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to rift an oak

Another breathless climb brought our adventurers to a third landing where there was a rift in the mountain.

While she was concerned about the rift in our associates' relationship, she felt Quinn and Howie getting together might produce some positive results, in spite of how acrimonious they might be to each other.

Mr Ritchie's remission of the shilling import-duty on corn led to Mr Chamberlain's crusade in favour of tariff reform and colonial preference, and as the session proceeded the rift grew in the Unionist ranks.

In the vicinity of Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika, sandstones and shales of Lower Karroo age and yielding seams of coal are considered to owe their position and preservation to being let down by rift faults into hollows of the crystalline rocks.

No doubt he would rather his family didn't know about the rift in their relationship at this point.

The entrance is a tight vertical rift about forty feet deep.

Was it an attempt to cause a rift between them or did he think there was real danger?

As they are dragged through the rift caves to Quentaris some of the slaves undergo a change that awakens some dormant psychic abilities.

At the foot, a small stream passage ends at a chamber where the way on may be up a rift on the left.

The main rift continues from the entrance passageway and is reached by a climb up the right hand wall and onto a ledge.

However, the passage eventually petered out in a narrow rift.

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However, my comments about the impenetrable rift had not been forgotten.

Above, the passage narrowed into an impassable rift.

Past a couple of descents, the rift chamber ends in a bedding area, on two levels.

Accusing a loved one of cheating when they aren't can cause a rift in your relationship.

Just above Holyoke the Connecticut leaves the rugged highlands through a rift between Mt Tom (1214 ft.; ascended by a mountain-railway from Holyoke) and Mt Holyoke (954 ft.), and begins a meandering valley course, falling (in the Hadley Falls) in great volume some 60 ft.

Inland the Chebchi and Mandara mountains indicate the direction and extent of the rift.

The first rift between them came in 1600, when Maurice was forced against his will by the states-general, under the advocate's influence, to undertake an expedition into Flanders, which was only saved from disaster by desperate efforts which ended in victory at Nieuwport.

We stock a wide range of fish from the lakes together with a range of rift lake catfish.

Youâll find the Great Lakes of Africa in the truly enormous Great Rift Valley of East Africa.

From where we stood we could see the escarpment of the African Rift Valley.

The parts east and west of the central Rift were inhabited by peasants who practiced mixed crop and livestock farming.

Both branches formed on the western flanks of the East African Rift, which is on the southern half of the Great Rift Valley.

The models will be used to determine the rheology of the incipient oceanic lithosphere around the Dabbahu rift.

Carry on downstream from the Third Pitch for a few meters, until a thin rift passage enters up on the left.

Executives are not abandoned penniless in the Rift Valley as a test of initiative.

The rift drops over jammed boulders to a mud floored boulder pile sloping downstream to a roaring streamway all of 2 meters long.

The journey took us over barren high plateaux leading away from the Great Rift Valley toward the eastern Desert.

The chamber appears to be formed on the hading rift seen below the entrance.

A steeply descending rift with chamber at base full of boulders which prevented further progress.

This stream can be followed to a terminal choke where it sinks in a choked rift.

Continuing further along the meandering rift a junction is met with a 35m high aven straight ahead.

Ahead, an ascending rift, covered in ' popcorn ', was not pushed further to avoid damage to formations.

A steeply ascending phreatic rift was gained heading north east to reach a point some 45m above the start of the climb.

A short passage led into a narrow rift which soon met with the stream.

But, below my feet it drops away down into a widening rift, not to be attempted on the rope we have.

Arnold goes on to describe the solar system entering the Dark Rift!

We headed north into the western rift valley toward the Queen Elizabeth N.P. Good drive and some stunning scenery.

But this enabled them to proceed steadily until they came to a landing where there was a rift in the side of the mountain that let in both light and air.

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At the cascades, a high rift passage leads off for 60m with calcite flowers on the floor.

To the east a similar rift valley marks the end of the Uganda plateau.

Included are a map of the lake and associated rift basins; a multichannel seismic reflection line; and sediment core analyzes.

The route takes us through savanna habitat and numerous Rift Valley Lakes with great birding.

Climb into the roof where the veins finish at the upstream end and scrabble up a slab into a rift.

Arnold goes on to describe the solar system entering the Dark Rift !

More thrashing followed in some squeezes along the rift.

To the left at the three-way junction is a small chamber from where a 5m climb down a rift lands on boulders.

At the far side the southern, left branch ends at an undescended shaft of about 8m in a rift some 30m high.