verb
- Cut with shears.
- usage: "shear hedges"
- synonyms: shear
- Shear the wool from.
- usage: "shear sheep"
- Cut or cut through with shears.
- usage: "shear the wool off the lamb"
- synonyms: shear
- Become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain.
- synonyms: shear
adjective
- Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers.
- usage: "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep"
- synonyms: shorn
- Used especially of fur or wool. ( shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length)
- usage: "a coat of sheared lamb"
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