| 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: | bare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without clothing |
Synonyms: |
bald, bareskinned, denuded, disrobed, divested, exposed, in one's birthday suit, naked, nude, peeled, shorn, stripped, unclad, unclothed, uncovered, undressed, unrobed |
| Notes: | bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal |
Antonyms: |
clothed, robed |
| Main Entry: | bereft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking; missing |
Synonyms: |
beggared, bereaved, cut off, deprived, destitute, devoid, dispossessed, divested, fleeced, impoverished, left without, minus, naked, parted from, robbed, shorn, stripped, wanting, without |
Antonyms: |
full, happy |
| Main Entry: | chip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | knock a piece out of |
Synonyms: |
break, chisel, chop, clip, crack, crack off, crumble, cut away, cut off, damage, flake, fragment, gash, hack, hackle, hew, incise, nick, notch, shape, shear, slash, slice, sliver, snick, snip, splinter, split, whack, whittle |
| Main Entry: | chop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut up with tool |
Synonyms: |
axe, cleave, clip, cube, dice, divide, fell, fragment, hack, hackle, hash, hew, lop, mangle, mince, sever, shear, slash, truncate, whack |
| 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, skive, slash, snip, trim, truncate |
Antonyms: |
lengthen |
| Main Entry: | crop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, trim off |
Synonyms: |
chop, clip, curtail, detach, detruncate, disengage, hew, lop, mow, pare, pollard, prune, reduce, shave, shear, shorten, skive, slash, snip, top, truncate |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
Synonyms: |
amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chine, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, decussate, dice, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, facet, fell, flitch, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scarify, scissor, score, scythe, separate, shave, shear, sickle, skive, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip |
| Main Entry: | divide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | separate, disconnect |
Synonyms: |
abscind, bisect, branch, break, break down, carve, chop, cleave, cross, cut, cut up, demarcate, detach, dichotomize, disengage, disentangle, disjoin, dislocate, dismember, dissect, dissever, dissociate, dissolve, disunite, divorce, halve, intersect, isolate, loose, part, partition, pull away, quarter, rend, rupture, section, segment, segregate, sever, shear, split, subdivide, sunder, tear, unbind, undo |
Antonyms: |
append, attach, collect, combine, connect, couple, gather, join, link, unite |
| Main Entry: | hairless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without growth on body part |
Synonyms: |
bald, baldheaded, beardless, clean-shaven, cue ball, depilated, egghead, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, shaved, shaven, shorn, skinhead, smooth, smooth-faced, tonsured, whiskerless |
Antonyms: |
furry, hairy, hirsute |