Cleaving

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of cleave.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In agriculture, a method of plowing over old ridges or ‘lands,’ in which each ridge is divided in the middle, the furrow-slices being turned in opposite directions.
  • Word Usage
    "So I went back to my empty dreams, to my phantasmagoria of illusions; but sometimes, like a sword cleaving a mist, through the high lands and the low lands and seas of my visions floated, like half-forgotten music, the sheen of dark eyes and shimmery hair."
    Verb Form
    cleaved    cleaves    cleaving    cleft    clove   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    create    make   
    Cross Reference
    split   
    Variant
    cloven    cleft    clove   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fit    assimilate    divide    part    open   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Eve    Kleve    Neave    Rajiv    Steve   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crevice    ravine    chasm    clove    cleft