Both Uses of
cleave
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice.†
Chpt 14
- She cleft the dusky air like an arrow.†
Chpt 18 *
Definition:
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(cleave as in: cleave through) to split or cut through somethingeditor's notes: Ironically, this word can mean to split in two or to hold together.
Note that you may see cleaved, cleft, clove, or cloven as the past tense of this sense of cleave.