Cleave
Cleave verb - To hold to something firmly as if by adhesion.
Pop
Pop verb - To break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- After Aragorn and Éomer have run off a group of Uruk-hai, a dozen of them pretend to be dead and leap up on them when their backs are turned — only to have Gimli pop up and cleave off two of their heads in a typically Dwarven display of awesome.
Source: Playing Possum
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