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