单词	cleave
释义	cleavecleave /kliːv/ verb (past tense cleaved, clove /kləʊv $ kloʊv/ or cleft /kleft/, past participle cleaved, cloven /ˈkləʊvən $ ˈkloʊ-/ or cleft) Word Origin WORD ORIGINcleave Origin: Old English cleofan. cleave to Old English clifian Verb Table VERB TABLE cleave Simple Form Present I, you, we, they cleave he, she, it cleaves Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they cleaved, cleft, clove Present perfect I, you, we, they have cleaved, cleft, cloven he, she, it has cleaved, cleft, cloven Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had cleaved, cleft, cloven Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will cleave Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have cleaved, cleft, cloven Continuous Form Present I am cleaving he, she, it is cleaving you, we, they are cleaving Past I, he, she, it was cleaving you, we, they were cleaving Present perfect I, you, we, they have been cleaving he, she, it has been cleaving Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been cleaving Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be cleaving Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been cleaving Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Our organization is trying to ease the racial problems that still cleave U.S. society. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A hog in a headscarf squealed as she cleaved its skull with her axe. Aenarion rose and smote the daemon mightily, cleaving its head in two and shearing its arm from its body. Frozen sea-spray cleaved at their faces. He was kissing Claudia, his body straining against hers, his hands cleaving her bottom. It was his choice, she said, to cleave to the Brownings and he was a hypocrite to say otherwise. Other sites are cleaved with much lower efficiency. The heavy, cleaving blade was devastating with just one blow. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► clove of garlic  Add a crushed clove of garlic (=single section of it). 1[intransitive, transitive always + adverb/preposition] literary to cut something into separate parts using a heavy tool, or to be able to be cut in this way:  The wooden door had been cleft in two.2[transitive] formal to divide something into two completely separate parts:  the racial problems that still cleave American society3cleave the air/darkness etc literary to move quickly through the air etc:  His fist cleft the air.cleave to somebody/something phrasal verb1formal to continue to think that a method, belief, person etc is true or valuable, even when this seems unlikely:  John still cleaves to his romantic ideals.2 literary to stick to someone or something, or seem to surround them
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