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rifted

rifted is the simple past and past participle of rift.

Meaning of rift

Verb (1)

rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)

  1. (intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
  2. (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
    • to rift an oak

Verb (2)

rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)

  1. (obsolete outside Scotland and northern UK) To belch.

See all 7 meanings of rift

Forms of rifted

comparativemore rifted
superlativemost rifted

Words formed from rifted

Questions about rifted

What is rifted the simple past and past participle of?
Rifted is the simple past and past participle of rift.

Words near rifted in the dictionary

  1. rift-saw
  2. rift-sawed
  3. rift-sawing
  4. rift-sawn
  5. rift-saws
  6. rifted
  7. rifting
  8. riftings
  9. riftless
  10. riftlike
  11. Rifton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rifted (page history and authors); rift (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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