cleaveverb [ I ]
uk/kliːv/us/kliːv/cleaved or US also clove, cleaved or US also cloven literary or old useto separate or divide, or cause something to separate or divide, often violently:
With one blow of the knight's axe, he clove the rock in twain (= into two pieces).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Separating and dividing
- atomize
- bifurcate
- bifurcation
- bisect
- borderline
- branch
- dismember
- dissociate
- dissociate yourself from sth
- disunite
- divide
- divide/split (sth) down the middle idiom
- drift
- quarter
- ravel
- resolve
- resolve sth into sth
- rive
- riven
- tear 1
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Phrasal verb(s)
cleave to sth