Sheared
[ʃɪəd]
Definition
(adj.) (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length; 'a coat of sheared lamb' .
(adj.) 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' .
Editor: Will--From WordNet
Definition
(imp.) of Shear
(p. p.) of Shear
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Examples
- She stamped her foot with pretty petulance, so, seeing she was obstinate, he carefully sheared off the tress close to her head. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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