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Word entry · 6 letters

cleave

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"Split, or cling"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkliːv/Part of speech verbSorted aceelvStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2L3E4A5V6E

Definitions

  1. come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation

Word origin

From Middle English cleven, from the Old English strong verb clēofan (“to split, to separate”), from Proto-West Germanic *kleuban, from Proto-Germanic *kleubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, to slice”).

Used in a sentence

  • The wings clove the foggy air.
  • O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
  • Hee claue the rockes in the wildernes: and gaue them drinke as out of the great depthes.

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