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sheared 音标拼音: [ʃ'ɪrd] = shearsheared adj 1: having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; " picked up the baby' s shorn curls from the floor"; " naked as a sheared sheep" [ synonym: { sheared}, { shorn}] [ ant: { unsheared}, { unshorn}] 2: ( used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length; " a coat of sheared lamb" Shear \ Shear\ ( sh[= e] r), v. t. [ imp. { Sheared} or { Shore}; p. p. { Sheared} or { Shorn}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Shearing}.] [ OE. sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. ski? re, Gr. ???. Cf. { Jeer}, { Score}, { Shard}, { Share}, { Sheer} to turn aside.] 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. [ 1913 Webster] Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip ( something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. [ 1913 Webster] Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To reap, as grain. [ Scot.] -- Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See { Shear}, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster] 29 Moby Thesaurus words for " sheared": abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, bobbed, capsule, capsulized, clipped, compressed, condensed, cropped, curtailed, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, mowed, mown, nipped, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, shaved, short- cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, trimmed
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