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1. (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length
   "a coat of sheared lamb"
    
2. Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers
   "naked as a sheared sheep";
   - shorn

1. Cut to the desired shape or thickness using shears
   "shear hedges"
    
2. Shave the wool from
   "shear sheep";
   - fleece
    
3. Cut or cut through with shears
   "shear the wool off the lamb"
    
4. (physics) become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain

See also: cut

Type of: change, clip, crop, cut, cut back, dress, lop, prune, shave, snip, trim

Antonym: unsheared

Encyclopedia: Shear