Tra từ cleave - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

cleave/kliːv/ verb (past tense cleaved, clove /kləʊv $ kloʊv/ or cleft /kleft/, past participle cleaved, cloven /ˈkləʊvən $ ˈkloʊ-/ or cleft)
[Language : Old English; Origin : cleofan. cleave to Old English clifian]
1. [I, T ALWAYS + ADV/PREP]
literary to cut something into separate parts using a heavy tool, or to be able to be cut in this way:
　 ▪ The wooden door had been cleft in two.

2. [TRANSITIVE]
formal to divide something into two completely separate parts:
　 ▪ the racial problems that still cleave American society

3. cleave the air/darkness etc
literary to move quickly through the air etc:
　 ▪ His fist cleft the air.
cleave to somebody/something phrasal verb
1. formal to continue to think that a method, belief, person etc is true or valuable, even when this seems unlikely:
　 ▪ John still cleaves to his romantic ideals.

2. literary to stick to someone or something, or seem to surround them

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cleft lip
cleft palate
clove of garlic (=single section of it)
▪ Add a crushed clove of garlic.
cloven hoof
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (caught) in a cleft stick
▪ Now the local authorities are caught in a cleft stick, hostages to their own political process.
▪ So the developing countries are caught in a cleft stick.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our organization is trying to ease the racial problems that still cleave U.S. society.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hog in a headscarf squealed as she cleaved its skull with her axe.
▪ Aenarion rose and smote the daemon mightily, cleaving its head in two and shearing its arm from its body.
▪ Frozen sea-spray cleaved at their faces.
▪ He was kissing Claudia, his body straining against hers, his hands cleaving her bottom.
▪ It was his choice, she said, to cleave to the Brownings and he was a hypocrite to say otherwise.
▪ Other sites are cleaved with much lower efficiency.
▪ The heavy, cleaving blade was devastating with just one blow.