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SHEARING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Removing by cutting off or clipping
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("shearing" is a kind of...):
cut; cutting; cutting off (the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shearing"):
sheepshearing (act of shearing sheep)
Derivation:
shear (cut with shears)
shear (cut or cut through with shears)
shear (shear the wool from)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb shear
