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cleft

noun / verb

Meaning

  1. nounAn opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.

    Example: The river flows through a cleft in the mountains.

  2. verbTo syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."
  3. verbsimple past and past participle of cleave

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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