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afsnijden — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • shear verb To cut the wool off a sheep or similar animal.

Senses

afsnijden is used for these senses in English:

  • abscind (transitive, archaic) To cut off. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
  • abscission The act or process of cutting off.
  • shear To cut the hair of (a person).
  • shear (figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.

shear — full definition

  1. verb To cut the wool off a sheep or similar animal.
  2. verb To cut through something cleanly, or to break suddenly under sideways force.
  3. noun A force that pushes two parts of an object in opposite, parallel directions.

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