shear
[verb]
Synonyms: cut, clip, crop, pare, prune, shave, skive, trim

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Related Words: mow, barb, barber, manicure, snip

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

shear /ʃɪə $ ʃɪr/ verb (past tense sheared, past participle sheared or shorn /ʃɔːn $ ʃɔːrn/) [transitive]
[Language: Old English; Origin: scieran]

1. to cut the wool off a sheep

2. literary to cut off someone’s hair:
Her long fair hair had been shorn.

3. be shorn of something to have something valuable or important taken away from you:
Though shorn of some of its powers, the party remains in control.
shear off phrasal verb
if part of something shears off, or is sheared off, it suddenly becomes separated, especially after being pulled or hit with a lot of force
shear something ↔ off
The left wing had been almost completely sheared off.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲