1syllable
cleave
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Definitions ofcleave
1noun
- Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
1verb
- To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
Example: "The wings cleaved the foggy air."
- 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.
- To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.
Example: "The truck cleaved a path through the ice."
- To split (a complex molecule) into simpler molecules.
- To split.
- Of a crystal, to split along a natural plane of division.
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