Past tense of cleave

Forms of cleave

Cleft and clove in a sentence

• The wings clove the foggy air.
• Some clock clove with silver the stillness of the morning.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published...
• The river flows through a cleft in the mountains.From the entry cleft
• Her eyes kept gravitating toward the little cleft in his chin.2008, Sara Shepard, Flawless, page 206. From the entry butt chin
• Similar analyses of cleft sentences have been repeated in the linguistic literature ever since.2007, Joachim Crass, Ronny Meyer, editors, Deictics, Copula and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area, page 170. From the entry cleft sentence

Meaning of cleave

1. verb To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
2. verb To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces.
3. verb To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting.

Full definition of cleave

Verbs like cleave

• leave (left)

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Questions about the past tense of cleave

What is the past tense of cleave?

The past tense of cleave is cleft, clove or cleaved.

What is the past participle of cleave?

The past participle of cleave is cleft, clove or cleaved.

Is cleave a regular or irregular verb?

Cleave is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.