unspecified meaning
- 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.
- She cleft the dusky air like an arrow.
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as in: cleave through Define
to split something -- especially with violent force
or:
to cut through something
as in: cleave to
Define
to hold firmly to something -- such as an object, a person or idea
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