| NOUN | shape | cleft | a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin) |
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| object | cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure | a long narrow opening | |
| ADJECTIVE | all | cleft | split or divided |
| all | cleft, dissected | having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib |
| Sounds | kleh'ft | |
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| Rhymes | bereft ... theft: 6 rhymes with ehft... | |
| Meaning | Split or divided. | |
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| Broader | divided | separated into parts or pieces |
| Meaning | Having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib. | |
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| Synonym | dissected | |
| Broader | compound | Composed of more than one part |
| Spanish | hendido | |
| Meaning | A split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin). | |
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| Broader | indentation, indenture | A concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) |
| Spanish | hendidura | |
| Catalan | clivella | |
| Verbs | cleave | separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument |
| cleave | make by cutting into | |
| Meaning | A long narrow opening. | |
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| Synonyms | crack, crevice, fissure, scissure | |
| Narrower | chap | A crack in a lip caused usually by cold |
| chink | A narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall | |
| crevasse | A deep fissure | |
| fatigue crack | A crack in metal resulting from metal fatigue | |
| fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break | (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | |
| rift | A narrow fissure in rock / rock | |
| slit | A narrow fissure | |
| split | A lengthwise crack in wood | |
| vent, volcano | A fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | |
| Broader | opening, gap | An open or empty space in or between things |
| Spanish | fisura, grieta, hendidura, quebradura, quebraja, raja, rendija, resquebradura | |
| Catalan | clivella, esberla, escletxa, esquerda, fenedura, fissura | |
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