What is another word for shearing?
136 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ʃˈi͡əɹɪŋ], [ ʃˈiəɹɪŋ], [ ʃ_ˈiə_ɹ_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for shearing:Synonyms for Shearing:
n.
•act (noun) •agriculture (noun)v.
•diminishing (verb)- lessening,
- pruning,
- compressing,
- Depleting,
- Truncating,
- dwindling,
- minimizing,
- diminishing,
- shrinking,
- paring,
- trimming,
- deflating,
- decreasing,
- eroding,
- Abridging,
- Weeding,
- decrementing,
- shaving,
- shortening,
- Bobbing,
- downgrading,
- Abbreviating,
- reducing,
- lightening,
- condensing,
- Concentrating,
- contracting,
- tapering,
- nipping,
- Compacting.
- Chopping,
- exhausting,
- Sniping,
- Blackballing,
- belching,
- venting,
- Discarding,
- Oppugning,
- Culling,
- Denying,
- Curtailing,
- disapproving,
- seeping,
- Excluding,
- Disclaiming,
- Spewing,
- shedding,
- Excising,
- exuding,
- Disgorging,
- junking,
- emitting,
- jettisoning,
- clipping,
- Eliminating,
- Lopping,
- Jilting,
- Rejecting,
- deep-sixing,
- erupting,
- Evacuating,
- Checking,
- Trashing,
- blacklisting,
- Ejecting,
- Abandoning,
- Cropping,
- Disallowing,
- Ejaculating,
- excreting,
- Discharging,
- vomiting,
- draining,
- barring,
- Secreting.
Other synonyms:
•Other relevant words:- division,
- fission,
- trim,
- truncation,
- abscission,
- cleavage,
- prunes,
- fleece,
- dissociation,
- pluck,
- haircut,
- cut-off,
- Mowing,
- pare,
- pulling,
- prune,
- hairstyle,
- cutting up,
- chop,
- plunder,
- scission,
- snip,
- shears,
- clasp,
- lop,
- gazump,
- turn off,
- run away,
- shut off,
- mutilation,
- reduce,
- body height,
- Leavings,
- shave,
- coiffure,
- shear,
- amputation,
- scissors,
- incision,
- clip,
- disconnection,
- cutoff,
- shearings.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
shear.
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Proper noun, singular
shear.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
distortion, strain, displacement, rupture.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
straining, Distorting, yielding.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
deformation, breakage.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Shearing:
- screening, scrummage, shrewmouse, soaring, scrounge, sure enough, sermonise, sarong, schizosaccharomyces, serinus, shrink, souring, soreness, shrinkage, secureness, squareness, shirring, Syringa Josikaea, scraunch, skirmish, sugariness, sermonize, square inch, sereness, scaramouch, scrimmage, sure-enough, syringe, Saccharum Munja, sour mash, scrawniness, sayornis, sureness, s wrench, swaggering, screw wrench, shoring, sourness, squirming, serranus, swearing, screwing, scrimshaw, scrunch, scouring, syrinx, scranch, surmise, scaramouche, sour orange, sorriness, shrunk, sorrowing, Syringa Josikea, scurrying, sour mash whiskey, sharing, screaming, saccharomyces, syringa, scoring.
Hypernym for Shearing:
n.
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act
sheepshearing.
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act
Hyponym for Shearing:
n.
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act
cutting, cutting off, cut.
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act