Cloven

adj, verb

adj, verb ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    past participle of cleave form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Split, sundered, or divided.

    "All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness—[...]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (used of hooves) split, divided wordnet

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ambivalentbifurcatedbifurcatedbisectbisectedbisected

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"The pig, the sow and the piglets have bristles, but not horns, but also cloven feet, as others do."

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