Crossword-Solution: CLEAVES 7 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

We have 20 clues for the answer “CLEAVES”

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Firmly adheres. 1 answer
Uses a butcher's knife 1 answer
Splits or adheres 1 answer
Splits ... or stays together? 1 answer
Is faithful (with "to"). 1 answer
Hews apart. 1 answer
Does some butchering 1 answer
Adheres ... or separates 1 answer
Splits in two 2 answers
Splits apart 3 answers
Splits open 3 answers
Sunders 4 answers
Clings 4 answers
Sticks together 7 answers
Divides 11 answers
Separates. 12 answers
Splits 25 answers
Cuts 27 answers
Sticks 28 answers
PARTS 38 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CLEAVES (5)

And I knew too that Xodar spoke the truth when he lauded the speed of his little craft, for nothing that cleaves the thin air of Mars can approximate the speed of the ships of Helium.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Thus we may see, Who cleaves to fame Rejects what is more great; Who loves large stores Gives up the richer state.
Tao Teh King Lao-Tze 1995
Loathly scab assails the sheep, When chilly showers have probed them to the quick, And winter stark with hoar-frost, or when sweat Unpurged cleaves to them after shearing done, And rough thorns rend their bodies.
The Georgics Virgil 2008
The roses blossom white and red On tombs where weary soldiers lie; Flags wave above the honored dead And martial music cleaves the sky.
Trees and Other Poems Joyce Kilmer 1995
And King John has stepped upon the shore, and we wait in breathless silence till a great shout cleaves the air, and the great cornerstone in England’s temple of liberty has, now we know, been firmly laid.
Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1995

Quotes with CLEAVES (3)

Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads.
Ben Lerner
Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.
Barbara Kingsolver The Lacuna
I predict a bad end for your race, humans,' Zoltan Chivay said grimly. 'Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want , poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to his own. Because it's easier to survive the bad times in a group, helping one another. But you humans, you just wait for a chance to make money from other people's mishaps. When there's hunger you don't want want to share out your food, you just devour the weakest ones. The practice works among wolv…
Andrzej Sapkowski Baptism of Fire
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 25 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).