Word Study
sheared (root: shear)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sheared has 2 senses
- sheared(a = adj.all) 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" Antonym: unsheared
- sheared(s = adj.all) Array - (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length; "a coat of sheared lamb"
THESAURUS
sheared
abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, bobbed, capsule, capsulized, clipped, compressed, condensed, cropped, curtailed, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, mowed, mown, nipped, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, shaved, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, trimmed
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