Sheared
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to cut the wool off a sheep:
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to cut the hair on a persons head close to the skin, especially without care:
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having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers
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(used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length
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Sheared refers to the action of having cut off or removed something by clipping, shaving, or slicing. Its commonly associated physically with the process of removing wool from sheep, cutting hair, or reducing the size of materials in industries. In terms of physics and engineering, sheared is used to describe deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.
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