Grifted vs Rifted - What's the difference?
grifted | rifted |
(grift)
a confidence game or swindle.
(rift)
A chasm or fissure.
A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 130:
A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
To form a .
To cleave; to rive; to split.
* Wordsworth
As verbs the difference between grifted and rifted
is that grifted is past tense of grift while rifted is past tense of rift.grifted
English
Verb
(head)grift
English
Noun
(en noun)- as in "What's the Grift?" or "What are you trying to pull?"
Synonyms
* See alsorifted
English
Verb
(head)rift
English
(wikipedia rift)Etymology 1
Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish/Norwegian '' 'breach', Old Norse ''rífa 'to tear'. More at rive.Noun
(en noun)- My marriage is in trouble, the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
Verb
(en verb)- to rift an oak
- To dwell these rifted rocks between.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) rypta.Etymology 3
Verb
(head)- (Spenser)