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rifting

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present participle of rift

Synonyms & Antonyms of rifting

as in breaking, tearing

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for rifting

breaking,
fracturing,
pulling,
rending,
ripping,
riving,
rupturing,
tearing

cutting,
gashing,
incising,
lacerating,
notching,
slashing,
slitting

penetrating,
perforating,
puncturing

breaking down,
decomposing,
disassembling,
disintegrating,
dissolving

bifurcating,
bisecting,
cleaving,
dichotomizing,
dissecting,
fractionalizing,
fractionating,
halving,
partitioning,
quartering,
segmenting,
subdividing,
trisecting

fragmentating,
fragmenting,
fragmentizing

detaching,
disengaging,
disentangling,
unraveling,
untying
(or untieing)

breaking up,
decoupling,
disassociating,
disconnecting,
disjoining,
disjointing,
dissevering,
dissociating,
disuniting,
dividing,
divorcing,
parting,
ramifying,
resolving,
separating,
severing,
splitting,
sundering,
uncoupling,
unlinking,
unyoking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms for rifting

closing,
darning,
filling,
healing,
knitting,
mending,
patching,
plugging,
repairing,
sealing,
sewing,
stitching,
suturing

accumulating,
agglutinating,
attaching,
binding,
cementing,
fastening,
fusing,
sticking,
welding

combining,
connecting,
consolidating,
coupling,
joining,
linking,
merging,
unifying,
uniting

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