nnoun.actremoving by cutting off or clippingDerivationally Related Form:shear
Hypernyms:cut cutting cutting off
Inherited Hypernyms:shearingcutshorteningdecreasechange of magnitudechangeactionacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:sheepshearing
Full Hyponyms:sheepshearing
vverb.contactcut with shearsDerivationally Related Form:shearingshearershears
Hypernyms:clip crop cut back dress lop prune snip trim
Inherited Hypernyms:shearsnipthin outreducedecreasechange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
vverb.contactshear the wool fromSynset:fleece shear
Derivationally Related Form:shearingshearsshearerfleece
Hypernyms:shave trim
Inherited Hypernyms:fleeceshavecutshortenchange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something
vverb.contactcut or cut through with shearsExamples:- shear the wool off the lamb
Derivationally Related Form:shearingshearershear
Hypernyms:cut
Inherited Hypernyms:shearcutseparatemove
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
vverb.changebecome deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strainTopic:natural philosophyphysics
Hypernyms:change
Inherited Hypernyms:shearchange
Sentence Frame:Something ---s