All 5 Uses of
cleave
in
Crime and Punishment
- And Sonia comes to us now, mostly after dark; she comforts Katerina Ivanovna and gives her all she can.... She has a room at the Kapernaumovs' the tailors, she lodges with them; Kapernaumov is a lame man with a cleft palate and all of his numerous family have cleft palates too.†
Chpt 1.2 (definition 1)
- She has a room at the Kapernaumovs' the tailors, she lodges with them; Kapernaumov is a lame man with a cleft palate and all of his numerous family have cleft palates too.†
Chpt 1.2 (definition 1)
- And his wife, too, has a cleft palate.†
Chpt 1.2 (definition 1) *
- They all live in one room, but Sonia has her own, partitioned off.... Hm... yes... very poor people and all with cleft palates... yes.†
Chpt 1.2 (definition 1)
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- She was considerably older than I, and besides, she always kept a clove or something in her mouth.†
Chpt 6.4 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (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.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)