After their argument, there was a ____ in their relationship.

noun

1. Fissure, crevasse
2. Fault
3. A clear space or interval
4. Breach, estrangement

verb

1. To burst open
2. Cleave, divide

   "hills were rifted by the earthquake"

3. Penetrate

noun

1. An elongated valley formed by the depression of a block of the earth's crust between two faults or groups of faults of approximately parallel orientation

noun

1. An acute, usually epizootic, mosquito-borne disease of domestic animals chiefly of eastern and southern Africa that is caused by a bunyavirus (species Rift Valley fever phlebovirus of the genus Phlebovirus), is marked especially by fever, abortion, and death of newborns, and is sometimes transmitted to humans usually in a milder form marked by flu-like symptoms

geographical name

1. Depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa extending with several breaks from the valley of the Jordan River south to central Mozambique

idiom

1. Make an unfriendly situation friendly again

   "Only time will heal the rift/breach between the two families."