Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rift
Participle: rifted
Gerund: rifting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | rift |
| you | rift |
| he;she;it | rifts |
| we | rift |
| you | rift |
| they | rift |
Perfect
| I | have rifted |
| you | have rifted |
| he;she;it | has rifted |
| we | have rifted |
| you | have rifted |
| they | have rifted |
Past
| I | rifted |
| you | rifted |
| he;she;it | rifted |
| we | rifted |
| you | rifted |
| they | rifted |
Pluperfect
| I | had rifted |
| you | had rifted |
| he;she;it | had rifted |
| we | had rifted |
| you | had rifted |
| they | had rifted |
Future
| I | will rift |
| you | will rift |
| he;she;it | will rift |
| we | will rift |
| you | will rift |
| they | will rift |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rifted |
| you | will have rifted |
| he;she;it | will have rifted |
| we | will have rifted |
| you | will have rifted |
| they | will have rifted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rift |
| you | rift |
| he;she;it | rift |
| we | rift |
| you | rift |
| they | rift |
Perfect
| I | have rifted |
| you | have rifted |
| he;she;it | have rifted |
| we | have rifted |
| you | have rifted |
| they | have rifted |
Imperfect
| I | rifted |
| you | rifted |
| he;she;it | rifted |
| we | rifted |
| you | rifted |
| they | rifted |
Pluperfect
| I | had rifted |
| you | had rifted |
| he;she;it | had rifted |
| we | had rifted |
| you | had rifted |
| they | had rifted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rift |
| you | would rift |
| he;she;it | would rift |
| we | would rift |
| you | would rift |
| they | would rift |
Perfect
| I | would have rifted |
| you | would have rifted |
| he;she;it | would have rifted |
| we | would have rifted |
| you | would have rifted |
| they | would have rifted |
Imperative
| you | rift |
| we | Let's rift |
| you | rift |
Verbs conjugated like 'rift'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'rift'
drift,
gift,
grift,
lift,
raft,
rif,
riff,
riot,
rit,
ritt,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, from a Scand. source (cf. Dan., Norw. rift "a cleft," O.Icel. ript (pronounced "rift") "breach;" related to O.N. ripa "to break a contract" (see riven).
2. From Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.
Sample Sentences
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to rift an oak
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to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:]
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The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell these rifted rocks between. [1822, William Wordsworth, A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine), lines 9–11:]
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1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
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he stopped rigid as one petrified and gazed through the rifted logs of the raft into the water.