cleft

Like the Korean Peninsula, Illinois is cleft into two parts: Chicagoland and “downstate.”

He pretended that it was five hundred years' journey from one to another, and that he cleft the moon in twain.

So I even told her how he had gone over the edge into the cleft, but without saying that we feared for his life for so long.

Thrice—De Valmont's guard shivered as a rush—through shield, hauberk, gorget cleft the Vikings' blade.

Point a pitying finger to the yawning abyss of shame, ruin, and despair that even now perhaps is being cleft under his feet.

But a single effective shot into the centre of the column had cleft it as a rock divides a torrent.