- 1clone something to produce an exact copy of an animal or a plant from its cells A team from the U.K. was the first to successfully clone an animal. Dolly, the cloned sheep
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- 2clone something to illegally make an electronic copy of stored information from a person's credit card or cell phone so that you can make payments or phone calls but the owner of the card or phone receives the bill
clone
verbNAmE//kloʊn//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they clone he / she / it clones
past simple cloned
-ing form cloning
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