Synonyms of cleaved

cleaved

verb

variants or clove or clave

past tense of cleave

as in adhered

to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion

you should resolutely cleave to the facts in your report

Synonyms & Similar Words

• adhered
• stuck
• clung
• glued
• hewed
• bound
• fused
• fastened
• united
• cohered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fell
• dropped
• loosened

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cleaved

The arid landscape is creased with rugged mountain ranges, cleaved by scenic canyons and filled with vast stretches of open space interrupted by midsize cities and small towns that spring like oases from the desert floor. — Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026

The capricious shift is whiplash-inducing, as if editors Adam Gough and Tom Eagles cleaved a sizable chunk of footage from the film. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026

Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape. — Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

District 8 was cleaved from parts of Districts 1 and 4 and includes Hunter’s Creek, Lake Nona, Moss Park, Williamsburg and Wyndham Lakes. — Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2026

His image split down the middle as if cleaved in half by the lightning. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 July 2026

Bathroom mirrors and toilets and kitchen tables stand exposed to the rain in homes cleaved in half like dollhouses. — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 20 July 2026

In 1865, more than eight decades after Elizabeth Freeman defeated slavery in Massachusetts, the practice was finally abolished throughout the United States, though only after a civil war that cleaved the young nation and cost more than 600,000 lives. — New York Times, 22 June 2026

For years, Seattle’s waterfront was isolated and written off as a tourist trap thanks to a double-decker highway that cleaved it from the rest of the city. — Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 May 2026