Synonyms of the word

shear

• v. To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
• v. To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.
• v. (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
• v. (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
• v. (figuratively) To deprive of property; to fleece.
• n. A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
• n. The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
• n. (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
• n. (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular…
• adj. Misspelling of sheer.

clip

• v. To grip tightly.
• v. To fasten with a clip.
• v. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
• v. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
• n. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
• n. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
• n. (obsolete) An embrace.
• n. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm…
• n. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the…
• n. (fishing, Britain, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
• v. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
• v. To curtail; to cut short.
• v. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
• v. (American football) An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting…
• v. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
• v. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering…
• v. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
• n. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole.
• n. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
• n. (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
• n. (informal) A blow with the hand.

crop

• n. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or…
• n. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
• n. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
• n. The lashing end of a whip.
• n. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
• n. A rocky outcrop.
• n. The act of cropping.
• n. A short haircut.
• n. (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store…
• n. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
• n. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of…
• n. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
• n. (mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
• v. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
• v. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
• v. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
• v. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
• v. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

deformation

• n. The act of deforming, or state of being deformed.
• n. A transformation; change of shape.

dress

• n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
• n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
• n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
• n. A dress rehearsal.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
• v. To adorn, ornament.
• v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
• v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
• v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
• v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
• v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
• v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
• v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
• v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
• v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

fleece

• n. (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.
• n. (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached.
• n. (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher…
• n. (countable) An insulating wooly jacket.
• n. (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
• n. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
• n. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
• v. to con or trick someone out of money.
• v. to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep).

lop

• n. (Geordie) A flea.
• v. (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune…
• v. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
• v. To allow to hang down.
• n. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
• n. (US, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
• n. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

prune

• n. (obsolete) A plum.
• n. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
• n. (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make…
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
• v. (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
• v. (obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged…

shave

• v. (transitive) To make bald by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair…
• v. (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
• v. (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.
• v. (transitive) To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
• v. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
• v. (US, slang, dated, transitive) To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest,…
• n. An instance of shaving.
• n. A thin slice; a shaving.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An exorbitant discount on a note.
• n. (US, slang, dated) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right…
• n. A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave.

snip

• v. To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
• v. To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
• v. To break off; to snatch away.
• v. (informal) To circumcise.
• v. (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
• n. The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
• n. A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
• n. Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
• n. A small amount of something; a pinch.
• n. (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
• n. A small or weak person, especially a young one.
• n. (dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.
• n. (obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A tailor.

trim

• v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
• v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
• v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
• v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
• v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
• v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
• v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
• n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
• n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
• n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
• n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
• n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
• n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
• adj. Physically fit.
• adj. Slender, lean.
• adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
• adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
• adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.