clefting

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Noun

clefting (plural cleftings)

1. (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
2. (linguistics) The formation of a cleft sentence.

Related terms

• cleaving

Verb

1. present participle of cleft#English|cleft

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