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Cleft   /klɛft/   Listen
Cleft

noun
1.
A split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin).
2.
A long narrow opening.  Synonyms: crack, crevice, fissure, scissure.
adjective
1.
Having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib.  Synonym: dissected.


Cleave

verb
(past clove; past part. cloven or cleaved; pres. part. cleaving)
1.
Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.  Synonyms: rive, split.
2.
Make by cutting into.
3.
Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation.  Synonyms: adhere, cling, cohere, stick.  "The label stuck to the box" , "The sushi rice grains cohere"



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"Cleft" Quotes from Famous Books



... descendest on thy nest in the cleft of the inaccessible rock, who makest the mountain pinnacle thy perch and halting-place, and, scanning with steady eye the orb of glory right above thee, imprintest thy lordly talons in the stainless snows, that shoot back and scatter round his glittering shafts,—I pay thee homage. Thou art ...
— The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge
... conceal. It was Wogan who had conceived the idea of her rescue—in the King's place. In the King's place, Wogan had come to Innspruck and effected it. In the King's place, he had taken her by the hand and cleft a way for her through her enemies. He was the man, the rescuer; she was the woman, ...
— Clementina • A.E.W. Mason
... worth looking at. Some old-time convulsion of nature had cleft the mountain barrier at that place so that giant walls of rock arose on either side of him for hundreds of feet, almost perpendicularly. For some distance ahead the cleft was nearly straight, and its gravelly bottom was ...
— Two Arrows - A Story of Red and White • William O. Stoddard
... Rock of ages, cleft for me! Let me hide myself in thee: Let the water and the blood, From thy side a healing flood, Be of sin the double cure; Save from wrath and ...
— The Otterbein Hymnal - For Use in Public and Social Worship • Edmund S. Lorenz
... fiery horses and the fiery chariots of the angels who would defend him, and the dark array of spiritual foes who throng around his bed. Point a pitying finger to the yawning abyss of shame, ruin, and despair that even now perhaps is being cleft under his feet. Show him the garlands of the present and the past, withering at the touch of the Erinnys in the future. In pity, in pity show him the canker which he is introducing into the sap of the tree of life, which ...
— Eric • Frederic William Farrar


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