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What is the adjective for cleaves?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb cleave which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

cleavaged
  1. Having (a particular kind of) cleavage.
cloven
  1. Split or divided.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Inwardly cursing herself for her loss of focus, she bent to pick up the cloth she had been cleaning the blade with, but as she began to rise, she saw the sapling nearby, neatly cloven in two.”
cleaved
  1. Cleft or cloven.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In a clearing between clouds we could see just ahead an area of large seracs where the shifting glacier had cleaved into blocks.”
      “Once inside the stroma, the transit sequence is cleaved off by the stromal processing peptidase.”
      “A very low-grade metamorphism, which developed chloritoid, affects cleaved rocks.”
cleavable
  1. Capable of being cleaved.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Spiroff reports cleavable masses of black calcite, with the color probably due to inclusions of chalcocite or tenorite.”
      “The cleavable complex is not thought to collapse spontaneously and is fully reversible.”
      “The MspI site is therefore polymorphic and can be detected as a cleavable amplified polymorphic sequence marker.”
cleaving
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