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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for sheared:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
sheared
    adj 1: 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" [syn:
           sheared, shorn] [ant: unsheared, unshorn]
    2: (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by
       cutting or trimming to a uniform length; "a coat of sheared
       lamb"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Shear \Shear\ (sh[=e]r), v. t. [imp. Shearedor Shore;p. p.
   Sheared or Shorn; p. pr. & vb. n. Shearing.] [OE.
   sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran,
   scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. ski?re,
   Gr. ???. Cf. Jeer, Score, Shard, Share, Sheer to
   turn aside.]
   1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like
      instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
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   Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from
         sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
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   2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument;
      to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to
      shear a fleece.
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            Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.
                                                  --Shak.
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   3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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   4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
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   5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See
      Shear, n., 4.
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