Shearing

Synonyms for "shearing" (120 found)

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Closest matches (24)

fleece abbreviate abridge abscind abstract amputate annihilate ban bar barb barber bare bleed bleed white bob boil down capsulize clip compress condense

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contract crop

Verb(2 words)

fleece break

Strong matches (36)

cull curtail cut cut away cut back cut down cut off cut off short cut out cut short denudate denude deplume despoil displume divest dock drain dry elide

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eliminate enucleate epitomize eradicate except excise exclude exhaust expose extinguish extirpate flay foreshorten impoverish

Verb(2 words)

deprive divide

Related words (60)

isolate knock off lay bare lay open lop manicure milk mow mutilate nip pare peel pick clean pick out pluck poll pollard prune reap recap

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Verb(1 words)

rack

Noun(3 words)

shears transvection wind shear

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

3 entries

cut cutting cutting off

derived

5 entries

hydroshearing nonshearing shearing shed sheepshearing woolshearing

form of

2 entries

shear shearling

has context

2 entries

mining scotland

is a

1 entries

cut

related to

5 entries

reap shear shear steel tilt vertical

Translations

5 translations across 4 languages.

Catalan

1 entries

esquilada noun (act of clipping fur/hair with shears)

French

2 entries

tondaison noun (act of clipping fur/hair with shears)
tonte noun (act of clipping fur/hair with shears)

Russian

1 entries

стрижка noun (act of clipping fur/hair with shears)

Ukrainian

1 entries

стри́жка noun (act of clipping fur/hair with shears)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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Tom is shearing the sheep.

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I am shearing the ewe.

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I am shearing the sheep.

Source: tatoeba (2720076)

You are shearing the sheep, aren't you?

Source: tatoeba (2720080)

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