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shearverb to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrumentit took almost a week to shear all the wool off the flock of sheep bob, clip, crop, cut, cut back, dock, lop (off), nip, pare, poll, prune, shave, snip, trim skive, whittlemanicure, mowpinch, stumpcurtail, shorten elongate, extend, lengthen to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)the shark's razor-sharp teeth sheared the swimmer's flesh right down to the bone cut, gash, incise, rip, slash, slice, slit crosscut, hacksaw, saw, scissorcleave, rive, splitpierce, stabbruise, butcher, hack, haggle, lacerate, manglerend, tearcarve, chip, chisel, notchanatomize, dissect, sectionchop, dice, minceamputate, cut off, sever before the 12th century |