cleft
/ˈklɛft/ verb C2- To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."
He/she/it clefts · Past clefted · Past participle clefted · -ing form clefting
Verb forms
- Base form
- cleft
- He/she/it
- clefts
- Past
- clefted
- Past participle
- clefted
- -ing form
- clefting
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Meanwhile, by a cleft between two walls of rock, following a path worn by a torrent, and which, in all human probability, human foot had never before trod, Dantès approached the spot where he supposed the grottos must have existed.
“Out by the Cleft Tor, I think.”
But down beneath me in a cleft of the hills there was a circle of the old stone huts, and in the middle of them there was one which retained sufficient roof to act as a screen against the weather.
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