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shear

verb
🔊/ʃɪə(r)/
🔊/ʃɪr/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they shear
🔊/ʃɪə(r)/
🔊/ʃɪr/
he / she / it shears
🔊/ʃɪəz/
🔊/ʃɪrz/
past simple sheared
🔊/ʃɪəd/
🔊/ʃɪrd/
past participle shorn
🔊/ʃɔːn/
🔊/ʃɔːrn/
past participle sheared
🔊/ʃɪəd/
🔊/ʃɪrd/
-ing form shearing
🔊/ˈʃɪərɪŋ/
🔊/ˈʃɪrɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. [transitive] shear something to cut the wool off a sheep给（羊）剪（羊毛）
    • It was time for the sheep to be shorn.是剪羊毛的时节了。🔊🔊
    • sheep shearing剪羊毛
    Topics Farmingc2
  2. [transitive] shear something (formal) to cut off somebody’s hair剪（头发）
    • shorn hair剪得很短的头发
    • The prisoners’ hair was shorn.那些囚犯的头发被剪掉了。
    Topics Appearancec2
  3. [intransitive, transitive] shear (something) (off) (specialist) (especially of metal尤指金属) to break under pressure; to cut through something and make it break切断；剪切；断
    • The bolts holding the wheel in place sheared off.固定这个轮子的几个螺栓断了。🔊🔊
    4. Word OriginOld English sceran (originally in the sense ‘cut through with a weapon’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German scheren, from a base meaning ‘divide, shear, shave’.