cleave

«cleave» in Mova's school dictionary: To split or cut right through something with a heavy… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (cleaves, cleaved or cleft, cleaved or cleft, cleaving) (old use)

meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) To split or cut right through something with a heavy blow: cleave the wood with an axe. tree →

2) To stick firmly to something: cleave to the truth. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales, a heavy blow splits an enemy down to the chest

examples

• The knight cried, «Cleave him to the brisket!» tree →
• The axe cleaved the log in two. tree →
• In old tales the hero could cleave a rock with one blow. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
• And his soul did cleave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel.
• But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
• but cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day;
• Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cleave» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.