cleave

Word family

cleave /kliːv/ verb (past tensepst cleaved, clove /kləʊv $ kloʊv/ or cleft /kleft/, past participlepp cleaved, cloven /ˈkləʊvən $ ˈkloʊ-/ or cleft)

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]CUT literary to cut something into separate parts using a heavy tool, or to be able to be cut in this way 劈开；割开；裂开

The wooden door had been cleft in two.

木门被劈成了两半。

2 [transitiveT]DIFFERENT formal to divide something into two completely separate parts 分裂，分开

the racial problems that still cleave American society

仍然在分裂美国社会的种族问题

3 cleave the air/darkness etc FAST/QUICKMOVE/CHANGE POSITION literary to move quickly through the air etc 划过空中/黑暗等

His fist cleft the air.

他迅速出拳。

4 cleave to somebody/something phrasal verbphr v

a) formalTRUE to continue to think that a method, belief, person etc is true or valuable, even when this seems unlikely 忠于；坚持，坚守

John still cleaves to his romantic ideals.

约翰仍坚守他的浪漫理想。

b) STICK literary to stick to someone or something, or seem to surround them 依恋〔某人〕；贴住，黏住〔某物〕

Examples from the Corpus

cleave• Frozen sea-spray cleaved at their faces.• The heavy, cleaving blade was devastating with just one blow.• He was kissing Claudia, his body straining against hers, his hands cleaving her bottom.• Aenarion rose and smote the daemon mightily, cleaving its head in two and shearing its arm from its body.• A hog in a headscarf squealed as she cleaved its skull with her axe.• It was his choice, she said, to cleave to the Brownings and he was a hypocrite to say otherwise.• Our organization is trying to ease the racial problems that still cleave U.S. society.• Other sites are cleaved with much lower efficiency.

Origin cleave

Old English cleofan. cleave to Old English clifian

cleave verb

Chinese

Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 21340 COCA: 20460

cleave

To break: break, fall apart, shatter...

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