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shear
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▲
Verb
To clip or trim with shears or a shearing tool
To cut with a knife or bladed implement
To separate or be separated into parts
To bite at
Noun
A large scissor-like cutting tool with flat blades
Trans-sensing
A force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree
An act of clipping or trimming something
The force per unit area exerted by a fluid against a surface with which it is in contact
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Verb
▲
To clip or trim with shears or a shearing tool
trim
cut
prune
crop
clip
pare
snip
shave
dock
bob
nip
poll
shorten
mow
fleece
groom
lop off
cut off
cut back
lop
pollard
truncate
remove
chop off
chop
slash
take off
hack off
detach
curtail
sever
skive
slice
hack
strip
cut short
thin
barber
hew
amputate
top
reduce
shave off
pare down
trim off
cut down
slice off
skin
scrape
peel
decorticate
coppice
shape
whittle
detruncate
gash
sliver
incise
dissever
clip off
whittle down
cut shorter
even up
nip off
saw off
single
neaten
skim
decapitate
lower
plane
ream
cream
scythe
thin out
excise
nick
slit
sickle
tidy up
axe
UK
trim down
notch
separate
snick
saw
shred
snippet
sunder
ax
US
eliminate
scrape off
file off
razor
contract
shrink
mangle
cleave
shear off
snip off
foreshorten
flay
cut into
excoriate
fragment
carve
slim
scalp
chisel
constrict
compress
slim down
crack
flake
break
crumble
splinter
peel off
strip off
narrow
condense
downsize
tonsure
knock off
disengage
deflate
split
pare off
lessen
round down
decrease
concentrate
diminish
hackle
waste away
tighten
chip
spall
blemish
make shorter
cut into a bob
break off
cut away
crack off
abbreviate
abridge
elide
boil down
syncopate
telescope
limit
restrict
abstract
minimize
US
retrench
epitomize
US
minimise
UK
epitomise
UK
curb
summarize
US
dwindle
moderate
drop
excerpt
get shorter
synopsize
take up
digest
cut to the bone
turn up
summarise
UK
bring down
put in a nutshell
gut
stop short
take out
cut out
remove from
downgrade
make bare
pinch back
shed
manicure
mark down
outline
consolidate
sum up
encapsulate
put down
get rid of
reduce greatly
blue pencil
ease
summate
recap
taper
restrain
minify
inhibit
halt
cramp
control
temper
mitigate
run down
compile
run through
get to the meat
give main points
précis
repress
ration
roll back
scale down
rein in
tighten up
cut down on
rein back
hold back
dial down
put the brakes on
put a restriction on
put a limit on
more ❯
“It is never thought expedient to
shear
the wool more than once in the year, and the proper period is always when the old fleece is about to fall off.”
Verb
▲
To cut with a knife or bladed implement
cut
slash
gash
slit
rip
slice
incise
lacerate
tear
rend
score
hack
pierce
lance
cut open
make an incision in
nick
split
snick
wound
sever
cleave
carve
knife
split open
slot
slice open
claw
mutilate
mangle
cut into
fray
savage
burst
slit open
rive
perforate
raze
scythe
chip
chiv
frazzle
injure
chop
open up
scratch
scrape
mark
notch
gouge
graze
furrow
puncture
nip
tear apart
engrave
maim
groove
butcher
jag
serrate
indent
dent
stab
shred
mangulate
scallop
damage
mill
make an indentation in
hash
flay
slay
chop up
cut about
depress
penetrate
dint
pit
hollow
chisel
saw
mar
etch
crack
destroy
jigsaw
break
ribbon
hew
scotch
seam
scribe
saber
US
sickle
skive
sliver
guillotine
scarify
fell
amputate
behead
separate
sabre
UK
scissor
flitch
scoop
crenelate
crimp
pockmark
cut to pieces
cut to ribbons
crosshatch
deface
cross-hatch
hole
rut
rabbet
pink
line
lay open
deboss
make a notch in
make a notches in
make nicks in
make notches in
hollow out
cave in
stave in
mark off
make a grooves in
make a groove in
maul
hurt
more ❯
“The branch will naturally recover in time as long as you did not
shear
it off completely.”
Verb
▲
To separate or be separated into parts
divide
split
sunder
cleave
part
separate
bisect
disjoin
sever
dissect
halve
quarter
subdivide
cut
partition
section
segment
carve
carve up
chop
divorce
fractionate
ramify
rive
abscind
break
dissever
tear
chop up
break up
cut up
slice up
split up
break down
hack
crosscut
intersect
rip
hew
rend
slit
transect
slash
snap
cut across
lop
crack
slice
bust
fray
incise
open
dismember
cut in half
divide up
cut in two
dichotomize
segregate
break in two
open up
spread
splinter
cross
gape
expand
crisscross
gap
yawn
lay open
split in two
divide in two
open out
split open
tear asunder
spread out
quadrisect
redivide
compartment
butcher
stretch
cut into
widen
share out
portion out
cube
dice
joint
divvy up
give
fragment
traverse
disunite
separate out
pierce
smite
meet
splay
decussate
crack open
spread wide
disjoint
divide equally
divide into two equal parts
sever in two
lace
anatomize
cut through
vivisect
operate
exsect
exscind
dislimb
prosect
lie athwart of
rest across
disarticulate
mutilate
tear apart
cut open
cut apart
fork
furcate
cut into pieces
saw down
bring down
saw
cut down
hack down
bifurcate
dehisce
frondesce
dimidiate
divaricate
hemisect
open wide
split down the middle
branch off
fall open
break open
separate into two
more ❯
Verb
▲
To bite at
nip
bite
nibble
peck
snap
gnaw
munch
nab at
sink your teeth into
take a chunk out of
champ
chomp
gnash
crunch
chew
wound
crush
masticate
chaw
taste
eat
rend
clamp
ruminate
tear at
nibble at
gnaw at
chaw on
bite into
bite off
grind
manducate
bite on
chumble
chomp on
gnaw on
crunch on
consume
devour
triturate
scrunch
tear
gum
chump
chew up
mash
chew noisily
bite at
pasture
browse
crop
feed
feast upon
forage
rustle
graze
take nourishment
more ❯
Noun
▲
A large scissor-like cutting tool with flat blades
shears
scissors
clippers
cutters
pruner
trimmers
blades
clipper
cutter
trimmer
pruners
razor blades
razors
shavers
“Using a
shear
to shear a pumpkin will turn it into a jack-o-lantern.”
Noun
▲
Trans-sensing
transvection
trans-sensing
Noun
▲
A force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree
strain
tension
force
tautness
tightness
traction
burden
distension
tenseness
tensity
pressure
pull
stress
stretch
rigidity
straining
stretching
stiffness
extension
draw
Noun
▲
An act of clipping or trimming something
clip
trim
cut
crop
pruning
shearing
shortening
snip
clipping
trimming
shave
tidy-up
tidying up
Noun
▲
The force per unit area exerted by a fluid against a surface with which it is in contact
pressure
force
load
stress
compression
thrust
weight
compressing
squeezing
crushing
density
gravity
heaviness
encumbrance
squeeze
strength
physical force
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