Definition for Shearing:

• Of Shear.

Synonyms for Shearing:

• n.

  •
  • crate,
  • brand,
  • corral,
  • dairy,
  • cow town,
  • cattle prod,
  • crook,
  • dip.
  •act (noun)
  • shearing.
  •agriculture (noun)
  • farming.

• 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.
  •rejecting (verb)
  • 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.
  •subtracting (verb)
  • lowering,
  • depreciating,
  • docking,
  • Deleting,
  • Subtracting,
  • Eliding,
  • Deducting,
  • Discounting.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • cut,
  • cutting,
  • cutting off.

Paraphrases for Shearing:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    shear.
  • Proper noun, singular
    shear.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    shear, Mowing.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    distortion, strain, displacement, rupture.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    straining, Distorting, yielding.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deformation, breakage.

Shearing Sentence Examples:

• A black fiend stood over him, and had already raised the horrible crooked knife; already he seemed to feel it shearing through nerve and artery.

• Then after shearing these extremities, the Poland which was left must not only accept the spoliation, but co - operate with her despoilers in adopting under their direction a constitution suited to its new humiliation.

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.

  • act
    sheepshearing.

Hyponym for Shearing:

• n.

  • act
    cutting, cutting off, cut.