Word "CLEAVE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
Synonyms:
rive, split
Examples:
cleave the bone

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
Synonyms:
adhere, cling, cohere, stick

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
make by cutting into
Examples:
The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock

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Split or stick Newsday 30 Aug 2025
100 go out and split (6)
Divide with a cut Newsday 03 Jul 2025
Split The Telegraph Quick 29 Jun 2025
Split or sever (6)
Cut cold, make your exit (6)
Stick is split (6)
Stick with, when many abandon (6)
Cut through Wall Street Journal 24 May 2025
Cut, 100 split (6)
About to go and separate (6)
Split open top for champagne before holiday (6)
Cling together - force asunder (6)
Cause a split at start of Caribbean holiday The Times Cryptic 09 Apr 2025
Cling (to) Premier Sunday 30 Mar 2025
Chopstick? (6) The Guardian Cryptic 20 Mar 2025
Many quit, yet still stick together (6)
Stick to - or part with (6)
Many get permission to go through (6)
Part to stick together (6)
Divide prime bit of Camembert the French way
Cut into separate parts (6)
Use an ax on, perhaps New York Times 21 Jan 2025
Stick to use as an axe (6)
Split asunder LA Times Daily 12 Jan 2025
Conservative has to go and split! (6)
Cut many don't take (6)
Divorce of uncle averted (6)
Rend New York Times 25 Dec 2024
Hold together, split apart (6)
Either unite or separate violently (6)
When caught resign, or they give the chop to (6)
Split Universal 24 Oct 2024
Either stick together or split up (6)
Split open, crack The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 15 Oct 2024
Split apart The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 03 Oct 2024
A split is found in Miracle Avenue
Split with cutting blow (6)
A number go away but are closely attached (6)
Split The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 01 Aug 2024
Quit after Conservative split The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Jul 2024
Split, as firewood Premier Sunday 14 Jul 2024
Stick together or split up
You may get cut off in Tabernacle Avenue (6)
Stick fast to Mirror Classic 05 Jul 2024
Split open Newsday 05 Jun 2024
About to abandon split
Chop apart
Cut in two LA Times Daily 20 May 2024
Cut The Telegraph Quick 19 May 2024
100 quit but remain closely attached (6)
Split open Newsday 19 Apr 2024
Split, as with an axe New York Times 15 Apr 2024
Split with an ax, say Premier Sunday 07 Apr 2024
Split, hew (6)
Cling to the French in cave
Separate or keep together (6)
Split yet refuse to be separated (6)
The French are in the cave! Let's split! (6)
Word that can mean either "attach" or "separate"
Fracture found half mile inside grotto
Split from clubs and depart (6)
Conservative leading referendum vote that's split The Guardian Cryptic 14 Dec 2022
Cells initially needing permission to divide? The Times Cryptic 07 Jun 2022
Split Thomas Joseph 16 Dec 2021
Split, or stick together, being caught with time off
About to drop stick
To separate and to adhere to Irish Times Simplex 30 Mar 2021
About to depart or part forcefully
Split New York Times 18 Feb 2021
Corps given permission to split up
Split Wall Street Journal 11 Jan 2021
Split apart Universal 27 Dec 2020
To split, or to adhere The Times Specialist Sunday 13 Dec 2020
Quit after Conservative split
To separate and to adhere Irish Times Simplex 01 Sep 2020
Unite and disunite
Divide The Washington Post Sunday 12 Jul 2020
Stick or separate
Fissure allows the French inside underground chamber
Roughly, allowance is split The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Nov 2019
Take a hatchet to USA Today 09 Nov 2019
Chop stick?
Stick fast; split The Times Concise 10 Sep 2019
Separate, or join Universal 26 Jul 2019
Split apart Wall Street Journal 17 Jul 2019
Split open Newsday 07 Jul 2019
South of Antarctic desert is split 
Walk out after Conservative split
Stick around, then go The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Feb 2019
Crack cocaine set out
Split into parts The Washington Post Sunday 27 Jan 2019
Stick or cling Family Time 06 Jan 2019
Separate, or join
Split apart
Split Universal 29 Dec 2018
Join or split The Times Concise 25 Nov 2018
Part of stick
Synonym for both 'adhere' and 'split' New York Times 08 Oct 2018
Split The Guardian Speedy 01 Sep 2018
Split open Wall Street Journal 30 Jul 2018
Chop stick?
Quit following Conservative split
Split stick
Article penned by endlessly crafty hack
Split
Split open
Synonym for both "adhere" and "split"
About to drop stick
Split LA Times Daily 17 Sep 2017
Split The Washington Post 17 Sep 2017
Split, or adhere USA Today 08 Aug 2017
Remain attached or split
Initially contact for permission to separate
Take an axe to USA Today 03 Jul 2017
Split asunder Wall Street Journal 18 Mar 2017
Clubs with permission split
Split, or adhere
Split
Take an axe to
Stick that's split? The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Dec 2016
First to cut up sticks, or stick
End of public holidays in Split
Split stick
Separate stick
Hack from Split? Irish Times Crosaire 30 May 2016
Stick around with permission
Split provides third-rate holiday …
Unite together; split apart The Telegraph Quick 30 Nov 2015
Cut through Wall Street Journal 23 Oct 2015
Cut stick The Times Cryptic 21 Oct 2015
Clubs will crack The Times Cryptic 29 Apr 2015
Sunder Newsday 28 Mar 2015
Part will go away with copyright
Clubs set out for Open The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Feb 2015
Split
Split along the grain
Sunder
Cut through
Split second in Scotland, then split!
Split along the grain
Split with an ax
Stick (to)
Split with an ax
Do a hatchet job on
Adhere or divide
Remain faithful in divorce
Crack
Word that can be its own opposite
Use a hatchet on
Split with an axe
Stick
Divide
Stick, or split
Split with a blade
Word that can mean "attach" or "separate"
Split
Remain faithful (to), or split
Split in two
Chop chops
Stick fast, or split apart
Split
Split
Split with a blade
Adhere closely
Adhere closely
Cause a separation
Split along the grain
Split
Fracture
Remain faithful (to)
Split
Remain faithful (to)
Split asunder
Stick together or split apart
Split
Sunder
Do a hatchet job on
Divide or cling
Adhere closely
Stick or split
Stick
Stick (to)
Stick
Hack off
Split with an axe
Split
Split in two
Split open
Split
Be a real cut-up?
Split in two
Split apart
Stick (to)
Do a hatchet job on?
Stick or split
Split asunder
Chop chops
Cling (to)
Adhere or split
Split or adhere
Adhere or sever
Verb with almost opposite meanings.
Cling to.
Sever.
Cut through.
Cling or part.
Stick.
Adhere.
Split.
Unite or separate.
Cling (to).
Chop in two
Cling.
Stick or split.
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