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tocleave

tocleave verb: to divide; split open; cleave asunder.

Verb

tocleave (third-person singular simple present tocleaves, present participle tocleaving, simple past toclove or tocleft or tocleaved, past participle tocloven or tocleft or tocleaved)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To divide; split open; cleave asunder.
  2. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To split apart; break.

tocleave meaning in Tamil

tocleave in Tamil

வகிர், கதழ்

Forms of tocleave

third-person singular presenttocleaves
present participletocleaving
pasttoclove
pasttocleft
pasttocleaved
past participletocloven
past participletocleft
past participletocleaved

Origin of tocleave

From Middle English tocleven, from Old English tōclēofan (“to split apart, cleave asunder”), from Proto-Germanic *tōkliubaną (“to split apart”), equivalent to to- + cleave (“to split”). Cognate with Old High German zechluiban (“to split apart, cleave asunder”).

Questions about tocleave

What does tocleave mean?
Tocleave means to divide; split open; cleave asunder.
What is tocleave in Tamil?
Tocleave in Tamil is வகிர், கதழ். See Tocleave meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tocleave?
Tocleave is a verb.
What is the past tense of tocleave?
The past tense of tocleave is toclove.

Words near tocleave in the dictionary

  1. tockings
  2. tocks
  3. Tockwith
  4. tockwough
  5. tockwoughs
  6. tocleave
  7. tocleaving
  8. toclopidine
  9. toco
  10. toco for yam
  11. toco toucan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tocleave (page history and authors); tocleave (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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