Meaning & use
sheared
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Cut off the wool or hair from an animal, or cut through something cleanly and forcefully.
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The farmer sheared the sheep before the summer heat set in.
The storm's winds sheared branches clean off the old oak tree.
A note on using this word
In engineering and geology, 'sheared' describes material deformed or split by a sideways force, as in a 'shear fault.'
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