cleft
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6.3
- adjective
- /klɛft/
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hendido
- I do charity work like I fix a cleft lip or a child's deformity.
- cleft palate
- cleft lip
- branchial cleft
You want a little cleft palate from the Santa, huh?
- You want a little cleft palate from the Santa, huh?
- You guys want this stuffed Bunny with a cleft palate or you want Ricky?
- Limbs, wrist thick with bark, whorled and cleft by, but whose tight angle might snap this year and wreck the tree and require a saw to remove.
- And this is her take on cleft lip.
- You guys want this stuffed Bunny with a cleft pallet or you want Ricky?
Examples
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The store clerk, an older, watery-eyed man with a cleft palate, brought me several from the back.
Fiction book (1998) -
When I report that I have repaired eighteen cleft lips without a complication, my wife seems proud of me.
Fiction book (2000) -
The upper lip is cleft.
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Your sister needs that final cleft palate surgery.
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Cleft lip included both median cleft lip and median 'pseudocleft' lip.
Academic text (2015) -
Multifactorial disorders often express as diabetes, cleft lip and palate, schizophrenia, spina bifida, and congenital hip dislocation.
Academic text (2005) -
The surgeon specialized in correcting a child's cleft lip to improve their appearance and feeding ability.
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Many children are born with a cleft palate, which can affect speech development.
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The baby's cleft lip was repaired through a routine surgical procedure shortly after birth.
Synonyms
Having two parts that reach almost to the base
A leaf or plant part with two separate lobes like a ginkgo leaf
A part that is split into two, often at the tip, as in a leaf or tongue
A leaf or petal with edges cut almost to the base making separate parts
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.1
A split in the roof of the mouth from birth that makes eating and speaking hard
- Specialized
A narrow opening in a fish's throat where water passes for breathing
- Specialized
A foot born with a deep gap between the third and fourth toes that extends into the foot
- Specialized
A slit in the throat of fish and other water animals that lets water pass for breathing
How Split
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cleft comes from an old English verb meaning 'to split', like the modern word cleave, so imagine a chin or palate that is divided into two parts. That's why cleft describes something that is split or divided.