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| Main Entry: | shear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clip, cut |
| Synonyms: | crop, cut back, fleece, groom, mow, pare, prune, shave, shorten, snip, trim |
| Notes: | shear(s) (noun) are large scissors with strong blades - (verb) to remove fleece, hair, or foliage by cutting or clipping; sheer (adjective) means complete and without restriction or qualification - (verb) turn sharply or change direction abruptly |
| Main Entry: | shears |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cutters |
| Synonyms: | scissors, clippers, hedge clippers, nippers, snippers, snips |
| Main Entry: | chip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | knock a piece out of |
| Synonyms: | break, chisel, chop, clip, crack, crumble, cut off, damage, flake, fragment, gash, hack, hew, incise, nick, notch, shape, shear, slash, slice, sliver, snip, splinter, split, whack, whittle, crack off, cut away, hackle, snick |
| Main Entry: | chop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut up with tool |
| Synonyms: | cleave, clip, cube, dice, divide, fell, fragment, hack, hash, hew, lop, mangle, mince, sever, shear, slash, truncate, whack, axe, hackle |
| Main Entry: | crop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, trim off |
| Synonyms: | chop, clip, curtail, detach, disengage, hew, lop, mow, pare, prune, reduce, shave, shear, shorten, slash, snip, top, truncate, detruncate, pollard, skive |
| Main Entry: | lop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trim |
| Synonyms: | chop, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, mow, pare, prune, shear, snip, truncate, pare down |
| Main Entry: | mow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut |
| Synonyms: | clip, crop, shear, trim, scythe, sickle |
| Main Entry: | pare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | peel, trim |
| Synonyms: | carve, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, decorticate, decrease, dock, flay, knock off, lop, lower, prune, reduce, scrape, shave, shear, skin, slash, strip, thin, uncover, mark down, scalp, skive |
| Antonyms: | cover |
| Main Entry: | prune |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trim; cut short |
| Synonyms: | clip, cut back, dock, eliminate, exclude, gut, knock off, lop, reduce, shape, shave, shear, shorten, snip, thin, pare down, skive |
| Main Entry: | shave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut outer covering off |
| Synonyms: | barber, brush, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, decorticate, graze, kiss, pare, peel, plane, prune, shear, shred, skim, skin, slash, sliver, strip, touch, trim, make bare, shingle, slice thin |
| Main Entry: | truncate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shorten |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut off, cut short, lop, pare, prune, shear, top, trim |
| Antonyms: | elongate, expand, lengthen, stretch |
| Main Entry: | clip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut short |
| Synonyms: | bob, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, decrease, dock, lower, mow, pare, prune, reduce, shave, shear, shorten, slash, snip, trim, truncate, skive |
| Antonyms: | lengthen |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
| Synonyms: | amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, dice, dispatch, dissect, divide, facet, fell, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, raze, reap, rend, rip, saber, score, separate, shave, shear, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip, chine, decussate, dissever, flitch, lay open, mow down, rabbet, rive, saw, scarify, scissor, scythe, sickle, skive |
| Main Entry: | divide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | separate, disconnect |
| Synonyms: | bisect, branch, break, carve, chop, cleave, cross, cut, cut up, demarcate, detach, disengage, disentangle, disjoin, dislocate, dismember, dissect, dissociate, dissolve, disunite, divorce, halve, intersect, isolate, loose, part, partition, quarter, rend, rupture, section, segment, segregate, sever, shear, split, subdivide, sunder, tear, undo, abscind, break down, dichotomize, dissever, pull away, unbind |
| Antonyms: | append, attach, collect, combine, connect, couple, gather, join, link, unite |
| Main Entry: | pressure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical force, weight |
| Synonyms: | burden, compression, encumbrance, heaviness, load, mass, shear, squeeze, strain, strength, stress, tension, thrust, compressing, crushing, squeezing |
| Main Entry: | trim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut shorter |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, barber, bob, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, edit, lop, mow, pare, plane, prune, shave, shear, shorten, snip, tidy, truncate, blue pencil, boil down*, even up, pare down, put in a nutshell, slice off, whittle down |
| Antonyms: | develop, let grow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | top |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove the upper part |
| Synonyms: | amputate, cream, crop, curtail, cut off, decapitate, dock, pare, prune, shear, shorten, skim, trim, truncate, detruncate, file off, lop off, pollard, ream, scrape off, shave off |
| Antonyms: | add, replace |
| Main Entry: | hedge trimmer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | garden tool |
| Synonyms: | shears, garden clipper, hedge clipper |
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