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What is another word for
shearing
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Verb
Present participle for to clip or trim with shears or a shearing tool
Present participle for to cut with a knife or bladed implement
Present participle for to make a long, deep cut in
Present participle for to separate or be separated into parts
Present participle for to knock or cut pieces off (a hard material)
Present participle for to bite at
Noun
An act of shearing or clipping
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Verb
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Present participle for to clip or trim with shears or a shearing tool
trimming
cutting
pruning
cropping
clipping
paring
snipping
shaving
docking
bobbing
nipping
polling
shortening
mowing
fleecing
grooming
lopping off
cutting off
cutting back
lopping
pollarding
truncating
removing
chopping off
slashing
chopping
taking off
hacking off
curtailing
skiving
stripping
cutting short
detaching
severing
thinning
barbering
amputating
topping
hacking
reducing
cutting down
shaving off
paring down
slicing off
skinning
scraping
peeling
decorticating
slicing
hewing
shaping
detruncating
axing
coppicing
dissevering
trimming off
clipping off
whittling down
cutting shorter
evening up
styling
scything
neatening
skimming
decapitating
lowering
planing
reaming
nipping off
whittling
razoring
creaming
excising
slivering
sawing
thinning out
sickling
eliminating
tidying up
trimming down
scraping off
filing off
sundering
contracting
shrinking
mangling
cleaving
shearing off
foreshortening
flaying
excoriating
carving
slimming
scalping
compressing
constricting
slimming down
stripping off
peeling off
condensing
downsizing
narrowing
tonsuring
knocking off
disengaging
deflating
paring off
diminishing
lessening
rounding down
concentrating
decreasing
wasting away
tightening
making shorter
cutting into a bob
more ❯
“It is never thought expedient to
shear
the wool more than once in the year, and the proper period is always when the old fleece is about to fall off.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cut with a knife or bladed implement
cutting
slashing
gashing
slitting
ripping
slicing
incising
trimming
clipping
cropping
pruning
paring
docking
shaving
lopping
bobbing
nipping
polling
shortening
removing
detaching
severing
nicking
notching
snicking
separating
shredding
snippetting
snipping
snippeting
cutting off
lopping off
cutting back
chopping off
hacking off
snipping off
taking off
cutting into
nipping off
trimming off
“The branch will naturally recover in time as long as you did not
shear
it off completely.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a long, deep cut in
gashing
cutting
slashing
slitting
incising
scratching
ripping
lacerating
nicking
scoring
tearing
slicing
scraping
marking
notching
gouging
snicking
rending
piercing
grazing
carving
splitting
furrowing
puncturing
cleaving
lancing
nipping
cutting open
tearing apart
hacking
making an incision in
wounding
knifing
severing
splitting open
slicing open
slotting
clawing
mutilating
mangling
cutting into
chivving
razing
chipping
scything
perforating
riving
fraying
savaging
bursting
frazzling
injuring
slitting open
chopping
opening up
engraving
denting
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
damaging
imprinting
grooving
etching
indenting
impressing
jagging
serrating
inscribing
defacing
chasing
graving
printing
debossing
maiming
insculping
shredding
scalloping
pitting
stabbing
digging
excavating
milling
marring
mauling
hurting
scooping
making an indentation in
disfiguring
shovelling
UK
shoveling
US
branding
scarring
stamping
scotching
cutting to ribbons
cracking
dredging
hollowing out
delving
cutting in
instilling
scooping out
abrading
butchering
harming
depressing
emblazoning
breaking
jigsawing
destroying
ribboning
dinting
hollowing
cutting to pieces
unearthing
seaming
scribing
penetrating
skinning
tearing to pieces
crosshatching
spading
rutting
rabbeting
pinking
lining
sawing
making a notches in
making a notch in
enchasing
trowelling
troweling
making notches in
making nicks in
crimping
crenelating
staving in
caving in
skiving
scissoring
scarifying
sabering
separating
beheading
felling
amputating
sickling
guillotining
slivering
flitching
holing
staining
marking off
making a grooves in
ornamenting
mezzotinting
biting
stippling
initialling
UK
diapering
intaglioing
burning
initialing
US
lithographing
ingraining
blotting
smudging
making a groove in
laying open
engraining
blemishing
blotching
smearing
infixing
burrowing
smirching
streaking
dirtying
discolouring
UK
tunnelling
UK
tunneling
US
splotching
embossing
tainting
sullying
bruising
tarnishing
soiling
besmearing
dotting
splodging
checking
discoloring
US
blazing
inking
chalking
stroking
digging out
chiselling out
clawing out
burrowing out
scraping out
cutting out
scratching out
hacking out
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to separate or be separated into parts
dividing
splitting
sundering
cleaving
parting
separating
bisecting
disjoining
severing
dissecting
halving
quartering
subdividing
cutting
partitioning
sectioning
segmenting
carving
carving up
chopping
divorcing
fractionating
ramifying
riving
abscinding
breaking
dissevering
tearing
chopping up
breaking up
cutting up
slicing up
splitting up
breaking down
hacking
ripping
rending
hewing
slitting
snapping
slashing
crosscutting
intercutting
cutting across
fraying
lopping
slicing
incising
cracking
busting
traversing
intersecting
transecting
splintering
disuniting
opening
splitting open
tearing asunder
segregating
disconnecting
detaching
uncoupling
dissociating
decoupling
dividing up
unlinking
unyoking
disassociating
cutting in two
resolving
disjointing
cutting into
undoing
piercing
smiting
cracking open
laying open
lying between
keeping apart
coming between
standing between
fracturing
cutting off
rupturing
fissuring
gaping
coming undone
coming apart
giving way
breaking apart
bursting
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to knock or cut pieces off (a hard material)
chipping
fragmenting
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
breaking
cracking
crumbling
flaking
hewing
splintering
whittling
gashing
hacking
slivering
splitting
chopping
clipping
hackling
incising
paring
snipping
blemishing
slashing
slicing
spalling
breaking off
cracking off
cutting away
cutting off
Verb
▲
Present participle for to bite at
nipping
biting
nibbling
pecking
snapping
gnawing
munching
nabbing at
sinking your teeth into
taking a chunk out of
Noun
▲
An act of shearing or clipping
trimming
clipping
snipping
cropping
pruning
trim
shortening
paring down
shaving off
cutting away
cut
crop
clip
shear
snip
shave
tidy-up
tidying up
digest
synopsis
abstract
summary
abridgment
US
abridgement
UK
condensation
outline
epitome
reduction
conspectus
compendium
résumé
précis
contraction
truncation
sketch
syllabus
precis
cutting
curtailment
compression
bowdlerization
shrinking
abstraction
abbreviature
telescoping
ellipsis
constricting
abbreviation
cutting down
cutting short
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