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Definition of cleft verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

cleft

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  1. past tense, past participle of cleave
    Word Originnoun Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to cleave ‘to split something in two’. The form of the word was altered in the 16th cent. by association with cleft, the past participle of ‘cleave’.
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