| Front | shear |
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| Back | shear /ʃɪə $ ʃɪr/ verb (past tense sheared, past participle sheared or shorn /ʃɔːn $ ʃɔːrn/) [transitive] 1to cut the wool off a sheep 2literary to cut off someone’s hair: Her long fair hair had been shorn. 3be shorn of something to have something valuable or important taken away from you: Though shorn of some of its powers, the party remains in control. shear off phrasal verb if part of something shears off, or is sheared off, it suddenly becomes separated, especially after being pulled or hit with a lot of force shear something ↔ off The left wing had been almost completely sheared off. |
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