Crossword-Solution: CLEFT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Cleft | imp. | of Cleave |
| Cleft | p. p. | of Cleave |
| Cleft | - | imp. & p. p. from Cleave. |
| Cleft | a. | Divided; split; partly divided or split. |
| Cleft | a. | Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf. |
| Cleft | n. | A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock. |
| Cleft | n. | A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood. |
| Cleft | n. | A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| CLEFT | anagram | LEFTC |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
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greedy person
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Sentences with CLEFT (5)
Thea turned away resolutely and began to go up the wall, using an irregular cleft in the rock for a path.
Yet He at length, time to himself best known, Remembering Abraham, by some wondrous call May bring them back, repentant and sincere, And at their passing cleave the Assyrian flood, While to their native land with joy they haste, As the Red Sea and Jordan once he cleft, When to the Promised Land their fathers passed.
For a hundred feet the steps wound spirally up, until at a sudden turning Tarzan came into a narrow cleft between two rocky walls.
The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The Moon was at its side: Like waters shot from some high crag, The lightning fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide.
And so while the maiden stood as one astonied before the worm, who gaped upon her with wide open mouth, there came forth from a cleft in the rocks a goodly knight who bore silver, a red cross; and he had his sword in his hand, and he fell upon the worm to smite him; and the worm ramped up against him, and there was battle betwixt them, while the maiden knelt anigh with her hands clasped together.
Quotes with CLEFT (3)
When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.
It is not the task of a writer to 'tell all,' or even to decide what to leave in, but to decide what to leave out. Whatever remains, that meager sum of this profane division, that's the bastard chimera we call a 'story.' I am not building, but cutting away. And all stories, whether advertised as truth or admitted falsehoods, are fictions, cleft from the objective facts by the aforementioned action of cutting away. A pound of flesh. A pile of sawdust. Discarded chips of Carrar…
Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I will forgive her a large nose, a cleft lip, even crossed-eyes; and I’ll bathe in the jouissance of her intoxicating odour.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 94 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).