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cleaved

/kleev/US // kliv //UK // (kliːv) //

劈开的,裂开的,已劈开,已劈开的

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cleaved or clave; cleaved; cleav·ing.

    • : to adhere closely; stick; cling.
    • : to remain faithful: to cleave to one's principles in spite of persecution.

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Examples

  • These bacteria produce antibiotic-cleaving enzymes that work as molecular scissors, which are released into and kept inside the periplasmic space.

  • Questions immediately arose about what could have caused more than 50 apartments to suddenly cleave away from the rest of the building.

  • Some limestone is cleaved from the cliff with a pickaxe and burned in a kiln.

  • Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker cleaves even more closely to scientific laboratories, following the personalities behind the making of CRISPR.

  • More recently, universalism has become a dividing line of its own that cleaves through traditional conceptions of political “left” and “right.”

  • Van Cleave maintains that in this day and age, however, Digital Detox Week is "unimplementable."

  • Were the members of them to receive the truth, and jointly to cleave to it, these societies would thereby perish.

  • In Covenanting, there should be made engagements to cleave to new correct views of truth and duty.

  • His tongue would cleave to his mouth in a woman's presence, let alone his lying to her.

  • She would cleave to the good God Lucifer, and she aspired to be the bride of Asmodeus.

  • Lift high the sword, cleave down the haughty warrior, And dip thy spear in blood, thou son of Odin!