cloven (See cleave)

1 separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone" [syn: split, rive]

2 make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"

3 come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere" [syn: cling, adhere, stick, cohere] [also: cloven, clove, cleft]cloven adj : used of hooves [syn: cleft, bisulcate]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊvən

Verb

cloven

1. past participle of cleave

Adjective

1. Split or divided.

Derived terms

• cloven foot, cloven-footed
• cloven hoof, cloven-hoofed

bifurcated, bisected, branched, branching, chinky, cleft, cracked, cut, dehiscent, dichotomous, dimidiate, divided, fissured, fissury, forked, forking, gaping, gappy, halved, in pieces, in shreds, lacerate, lacerated, mangled, mutilated, quartered, ragged, ramified, rent, rift, rimose, rimulose, riven, severed, shredded, slit, splintered, split, tattered, torn