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sheared
 
Adjective sheared has 2 senses
  1. sheared, shorn - 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"
    Antonyms: unsheared, unshorn
  2. sheared - (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length; "a coat of sheared lamb"
    Antonyms:     uncut, rough (indirect, via cut)
Verb shear has 3 senses
  1. shear - cut with shears; "shear hedges"
    --1 is one way to     snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
    Derived forms: noun shear2, noun shearer2, noun shearing1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. fleece, shear - shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
    --2 is one way to shave, trim
    Derived forms: noun shear2, noun shearer3, noun shearing1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. shear - cut or cut through with shears
    --3 is one way to     cut
    Derived forms: noun shear3, noun shearer2, noun shearing1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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