Contact and joining
Synonyms for cleave
The synonym for cleave recorded in this bank is split, in the sense "separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for cleave
- splitverb, in the sense "separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for cleave.
separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
Cleave the bone.
The true synonym
split
Same sentence, swapped: Split the bone.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- adhere
- activate
- grasp
Where cleave turns up in the game
cleave is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play cleave
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cleave reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because contact and joining is the company cleave keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. cleave carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.