Cleave: Definition and part of speech

Cleave

  1. v. i. To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate.
  2. v. i. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
  3. v. i. To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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