verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cleft lip
cleft palate
clove of garlic (= single section of it )
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Add a crushed clove of garlic .
cloven hoof
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (caught) in a cleft stick
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Now the local authorities are caught in a cleft stick, hostages to their own political process.
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So the developing countries are caught in a cleft stick.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Our organization is trying to ease the racial problems that still cleave U.S. society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hog in a headscarf squealed as she cleaved its skull with her axe.
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Aenarion rose and smote the daemon mightily, cleaving its head in two and shearing its arm from its body.
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Frozen sea-spray cleaved at their faces.
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He was kissing Claudia, his body straining against hers, his hands cleaving her bottom.
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It was his choice, she said, to cleave to the Brownings and he was a hypocrite to say otherwise.
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Other sites are cleaved with much lower efficiency.
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The heavy, cleaving blade was devastating with just one blow.