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Cloven
To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
📖 Definitions of "Cloven"
verb
- 1
To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
"The wings cleaved the foggy air."
- 2
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.
- 3
To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
"The truck cleaved a path through the ice."
- 4
To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
adjective
- 1
Split, sundered, or divided.
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