SHEARED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheared mean? 

• SHEARED (adjective)
  The adjective SHEARED has 2 senses:

1. having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers

2. (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length

  Familiarity information: SHEARED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEARED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers

Synonyms:

sheared; shorn

Context example:

naked as a sheared sheep

Antonym:

unsheared (not sheared)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length

Context example:

a coat of sheared lamb

Similar:

cut (fashioned or shaped by cutting)

 Context examples 

Then, the sample is sheared to separate individual protein-DNA complexes.

(Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, NCI Thesaurus)

It is most likely that they arise from an instability in the sheared eastward and westward winds.

(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)