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SHEARED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length
Example:
a coat of sheared lamb
Classified under:
Similar:
cut (fashioned or shaped by cutting)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers
Example:
naked as a sheared sheep
Synonyms:
sheared; shorn
Classified under:
Antonym:
unsheared (not sheared)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb shear
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