Cleave
Cleave verb - To hold to something firmly as if by adhesion.
Run
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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Run and Cleave. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cleave/run
Cleave & Run. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cleave/run>.
Run or Cleave. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cleave/run.
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