cleave
/kliv/ v [I/T] (past tense and past participle cleaved, cleft or clove, past participle cleaved, cleft or cloven, present participle cleaving)Definition
› to cut or break into two or more parts: [I] The volcano cleaved nearly in half after its last eruption.
(Definition of cleave v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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