Word Finder - cloven

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To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.

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The wings cleaved the foggy air.

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To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.

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To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.

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The truck cleaved a path through the ice.

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To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.

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To split.

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Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.

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Split, sundered, or divided.

These animals must have cloven hooves and chew their cud.

The Red Dragon of Wales and the cloven Celtic cross of Cadw now fly from the Edwardian castles.

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, & it sat upon each of them.

Some more potent upheaval had cloven a great slice from the marble mantel.

However St Dunstan spotted the cloven hooves beneath the dress, and grabbed the devil's nose with his red hot pincers!

Your heads cloven by the pagans ' blades, O warriors of the King of glory, ye truly vanquished death.

This was known to medieval alchemy as the sign of the cloven hoof.. .

The great elk did not say, " Cloven hoofs are very much worn now.

The Devil's cloven hoof is perhaps one of the most common articles of folk belief.

The facing of the cloven surfaces was done by hammer-dressing, using rounded masses of quartzose hornstone, held in the hand without any handle.