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cleft

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Treatable diagnoses, such as cleft lip, are distinct from diagnoses pertaining to severely disabled newborns.

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Had the slope been mellower, Lewis could have hopped on one leg, but the route traveled through standing timber, around downed trees, across rocky clefts, and through small subalpine finger meadows.

Messages pass between one cell and onto the next by floating across the space between — a gap called the synaptic 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.

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On this page you'll find 89 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cleft, such as: broken, cloven, cracked, crenelated, parted, and perforated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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