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cleave
Overview of verb cleave
The verb cleave has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) cleave, split, rive -- (separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone")
2. cleave -- (make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock")
3. cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere -- (come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere")
Grep of noun cleave
cleaver
cleavers
Antonyms of verb cleave
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cleave
3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
=> tear
=> separate, disunite, divide, part
=> move, displace
Sense 2
cleave
=> make, create
Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
=> touch, adjoin, meet, contact
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb cleave
2 of 3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
=> maul
=> laminate
Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
=> mold
=> conglutinate
=> agglutinate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cleave
3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
=> tear
Sense 2
cleave
=> make, create
Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
=> touch, adjoin, meet, contact
'Cause To' of verb cleave
Derived Forms of verb cleave
2 of 3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
RELATED TO>(noun) cleft#1
=> cleft
RELATED TO>(noun) cleavage#5
=> cleavage
RELATED TO>(noun) cleaver#1
=> cleaver, meat cleaver, chopper
Sense 2
cleave
RELATED TO>(noun) cleft#1
=> cleft
Domain of verb cleave
Domain Terms of verb cleave
Familiarity of verb cleave
cleave used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb cleave
3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
cleave
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
*> Something ----s
*> Something is ----ing PP
*> Somebody ----s PP
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb cleave
3 senses of cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
> tear
=> cleave, split, rive
Sense 2
cleave
> make, create
=> beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth
=> reproduce, procreate, multiply
=> regenerate
=> clear
=> distill, extract, distil
=> derive, educe
=> froth, spume, suds
=> lay down, establish, make
=> puncture
=> twine
=> cleave
=> track
=> institute, bring
=> short-circuit, short
=> re-create
=> grind
=> generate, bring forth
=> originate, initiate, start
=> give, yield
=> bring, work, play, wreak, make for
=> raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
=> create by mental act, create mentally
=> create, make
=> realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate
=> cause, do, make
=> establish, give
=> put on, turn in
=> bear, turn out
=> create from raw material, create from raw stuff
=> construct, build, make
=> build, establish
=> assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
=> style
=> strike
=> copy, re-create
=> create verbally
=> compose, write
=> choreograph
=> direct
=> film
=> film-make
=> recreate
=> offset
=> scrape
=> produce, bring forth
=> produce, bring about, give rise
=> press
=> prepare
=> cut
=> cut
=> raise
=> beat
=> arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
=> incorporate
=> form, organize, organise
Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
> touch, adjoin, meet, contact
=> cover, spread over
=> cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
=> rub, fray, fret, chafe, scratch
=> attach
=> hug
=> border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on
=> surround, skirt, border
=> lean on, rest on, lean against
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb cleave
Sense 1
cleave, split, rive
=> tear
Sense 2
cleave
=> make, create
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Sense 3
cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere
=> touch, adjoin, meet, contact
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Grep of verb cleave
cleave
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