Synonym: crack, crevice, indentation, notch, opening, space. Similar words: cleft palate, left, be left, left hand, leftist, left-wing, left over, left wing. Meaning: [kleft] 
n. 1. a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin) 2. a long narrow opening. adj. 1. used of hooves 2. having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib.
n. 1. a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin) 2. a long narrow opening. adj. 1. used of hooves 2. having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib. 
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1. The wooden door had been cleft in two.
2. His skin was cleft with deep lines.
3. Their baby had an operation to repair a cleft palate.
4. His fist cleft the air.
5. Bobby was born with a cleft lip.
6. They walked up a cleft in the hills.
7. Eagles often nest in a cleft in the rocks.
8. I was in a cleft stick—my job was boring but I couldn't move to another firm without losing my company pension.
9. UN troops are in a cleft stick: something has to be done for the civilian population[sentencedict.com], yet to retaliate would surely be the spark to ignite all-out war.
10. Her skin was cleft with deep lines running from the jaw to the high jutting cheekbones.
11. The whole mountain chain originated from this cleft as lava surged up and spilled down on both sides.
12. The sacred way moves towards the cleft hill and a pass which opens to Eleusis itself.
13. The spring that gushes from a cleft mountain is the Goddess's blood.
14. For various examples of cleft and pseudo-cleft structures, see sections 5.1.1.3 and 5.1.2.1 of this chapter.
15. Guang Qiu, now 21, born with a cleft palate came as a small baby.
16. The cleft stick plight which is his current political position is displayed most vividly over Mr Heseltine's coal mine dilemma.
17. So the developing countries are caught in a cleft stick.
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18. Cleft and pseudo-cleft structures, discussed under predicated and identifying themes in 5.1.1.3 above, provide good examples.
19. No-one lives up here in the cleft of the White Kielder Burn.
20. Rain looked down into the steep cleft of another valley.
21. Now the local authorities are caught in a cleft stick, hostages to their own political process.
22. We came to the Cleft, a shallow indentation, a fold in the flesh of the mountain.
23. Slice was perched along the sides of a cleft in the mountains that couldn't be dignified by the name of valley.
24. Contorting herself elegantly, yet always remaining perfectly balanced, she missed no cleft or crease or dimple.
25. The entire site looks across the valley to a further cleft in the mountains.
26. This mountain may possess other features, but the double peak or notched cleft remains constant.
27. Katya was born with a bilateral hare lip and cleft palate.
28. An action potential in the presynaptic neuron releases neurotransmitter into the cleft.
29. Once here he will have an operation to repair a cleft palate by plastic surgeon Charles Viva.
30. In the spray perpetual rainbows are fixed in position as though their unseen feet were nailed to the base of the cleft.
More similar words: cleft palate, left, be left, left hand, leftist, left-wing, left over, left wing, leftover, on the left, leftovers, stage left, right and left, left hemisphere, weft, theft, heft, deft, hefty, deftly, bereft, deftness, chieftain, doleful, baleful, malefic, settle for, balefully, dolefully, identity theft.