clefting

English

Etymology

From cleft +‎ -ing.

Noun

clefting (plural cleftings)

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

Derived terms

Verb

clefting

  1. present participle and gerund of cleft
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