Crossword-Solution: CLEAVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cleave | v. i. | To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. |
| Cleave | v. i. | To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment. |
| Cleave | v. i. | To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate. |
| Cleave | v. t. | To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut. |
| Cleave | v. t. | To part or open naturally; to divide. |
| Cleave | v. i. | To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
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greedy person
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Sentences with CLEAVE (5)
For a moment the terror of Hans Van Ripper’s wrath passed across his mind,--for it was his Sunday saddle; but this was no time for petty fears; the goblin was hard on his haunches; and (unskilful rider that he was!) he had much ado to maintain his seat; sometimes slipping on one side, sometimes on another, and sometimes jolted on the high ridge of his horse’s backbone, with a violence that he verily feared would cleave him asunder.
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.
The majority of the troops would doubtless follow the lead of their officers, and I knew that many of the highest and most powerful men of both land and air forces would cleave to John Carter in the face of god, man, or devil.
Men such as they must cleave only to the vile, hating all that is noblest and best.” “It is very kind of you to put it that way,” she replied, smiling.
Then resuming his task, he went on,—“I, Gurth, the son of Beowulph, swineherd unto the said Cedric, with the assistance of our allies and confederates, who make common cause with us in this our feud, namely, the good knight, called for the present ‘Le Noir Faineant’, and the stout yeoman, Robert Locksley, called Cleave-the-Wand.
Quotes with CLEAVE (3)
Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like robins or bison or maybe you believe love is how forces or nature or luck is benign to you in particular not maiming or killing you but if so doing it for your own good. Love is none of that. Th…
Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus paused next to one of the shining braziers, peered beneath the bronze visage that loomed orange and scowling over his father, watched him lean back into absolute shadow.“You came to the world,” unseen lips said, “and you saw that Men were like children.” Lines of radiance danced across the intervening waters.“It is their nature to believe as their fathers believed,” the darkness con…
It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, TIME, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 95 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).