shear
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they shear | |
he / she / it shears | |
past simple sheared | |
past participle shorn | |
past participle sheared | |
-ing form shearing |
- [transitive] shear something
to cut the wool off a sheep Topics Farmingc2给(羊)剪(羊毛) - [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。
- [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
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’.