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cleft

/ˈklɛft/ verbe C2
  1. 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 · Prétérit clefted · Participe passé clefted · Forme en -ing clefting

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Formes du verbe

Forme de base
cleft
He/she/it
clefts
Prétérit
clefted
Participe passé
clefted
Forme en -ing
clefting

Dans la bibliothèque

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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 249 · C1
“Out by the Cleft Tor, I think.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 120 · C1
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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 154 · C1

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