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Cut off

We have found the following answers matching the query 'Cut off' in our database: For more stats and recent usage scroll down and continue reading. Cut off crossword clue was last seen on January 4 2024 in the popular Wall Street Journal Crossword.

RankAnswerCluePublisher
99%SHEARCut offWall Street Journal
20%HACKCut off crudelyNewsday
20%LOPCut off as branchesUniversal
20%LOPCut off a branchUniversal
20%HEWHang on or cut offNewsday
20%LOPCut off as a branch

Definition

To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
To reap, as grain.
Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
To deviate. See Sheer.
To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

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