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shearingverbpresent participle of shear 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 bobbing, clipping, cropping, cutting, cutting back, docking, lopping (off), nipping, paring, polling, pruning, shaving, snipping, trimming skiving, whittlingmanicuring, mowingpinching, stumpingcurtailing, shortening elongating, extending, lengthening 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 cutting, gashing, incising, ripping, slashing, slicing, slitting crosscutting, hacksawing, sawing, scissoringcleaving, riving, splittingpiercing, stabbingbruising, butchering, hacking, haggling, lacerating, manglingrending, tearingcarving, chipping, chiseling(or chiselling), notchinganatomizing, dissecting, sectioningchopping, dicing, mincingamputating, cutting off, severing |