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Cloven

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

📖 Definitions of "Cloven"

verb
  1. 1

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

    "The wings cleaved the foggy air."

  2. 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. 3

    To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.

    "The truck cleaved a path through the ice."

  4. 4

    To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.

adjective
  1. 1

    Split, sundered, or divided.

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