shear
/ʃɪɚ/noun, verb1 syllable
Shear means: shear the wool from.
Synonyms for shear2
verb, as in shear the wool from
What does shear mean?6
verb
1
shear the wool from“shear sheep”
2
cut with shears“shear hedges”
3
cut or cut through with shears“shear the wool off the lamb”
4
become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
noun
1
(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves“the shear changed the rectangle into a parallelogram”
2
a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with shear?50
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Shear in a sentence
- I want to learn how to shear a sheep.CK
- Ziri is going to shear the ewe tomorrow.Amastan
- These are the instruments you need to shear a sheep.Amastan
- I cannot shear my sheep now. It's still cold.Amastan
- Ziri asked Yazid if he could borrow his hedge shear.Amastan
- Our sheep's fleece is thick; no matter how much we shear it, it will grow back.AmarMecheri
- They usually shear sheep in spring.CM
- He knows how to shear a sheep.Amastan
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Forms of shear
as a noun
- plural
- shears
as a verb
- past tense
- sheared
- past participle
- shorn
- present participle
- shearing
- third-person singular
- shears