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Definition
to split something — especially with violent force
or:
to cut through something
or:
to cut through something
- Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead! stabbed with a white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a love song;
the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to encounter Tybalt?2.4 — Act 2 Scene 4 — A Street (8% in)
cleft = split
(editor's note: Cleft is the past tense of cleave like left is past tense of leave.)
(editor's note: Cleft is the past tense of cleave like left is past tense of leave.)
There are no more uses of "cleave" in Romeo and Juliet.
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