riftedadj.
/ˈrɪftᵻd/, U.S. /ˈrɪftᵻd/ Split with a rift or rifts; cleft.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > broken > split, cleft, or cracked
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1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. ii. sig. Dv Defyance to thy power, thou rifted Iawne.
1637 J. Milton Comus 18 Rifted rocks whose entrance leads to hell.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiv. 9 The cavern of some rifted den, Where flock nocturnal bats.
1797 R. Southey Joan of Arc vi. 17 Breaking through a rifted cloud The moonlight show'd.
1863 H. W. Longfellow Musician's Tale ii. ii, in Tales Wayside Inn 74 The rifted Streamers o'er him shook and shifted.
1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold i. ii. 25 The rifted pillars of the wood.
1916 Sci. Monthly Apr. 344 We thus have a photographic record of the ice formation, not only upon the unrifted stalk,..but also of the formation on the rifted stalk.
1990 Beijing Rev. 20 Aug. 43/2 The hospital has an international reputation for the reconstruction of..rifted urethra.
2006 D. H. Erwin Extinction viii. 195 But when the ridge was sampled a few years later geologists found not volcanic rocks but a rifted piece of the European continent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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