We have spotted SHEAR (5 Letters) a total of 38 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with SHEAR and also when and where was it last seen:
	
		
			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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Usage among publishers:
- New York Times: Sep 10, 2025
- Newsday: Aug 27, 2025
- Wall Street Journal: May 24, 2025
- LA Times: May 21, 2025
- USA Today: Apr 20, 2025
- LA Times: Feb 14, 2025
- LA Times: Feb 9, 2025
- LA Times: Dec 5, 2024
- Universal: Oct 17, 2024
- USA Today: Aug 6, 2024
- Newsday: Jun 19, 2024
- Newsday: May 13, 2024
- Newsday: Apr 22, 2024
- New York Times: Apr 21, 2024
- New York Times: Apr 20, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Jan 4, 2024
- Newsday: Oct 21, 2023
- Thomas Joseph: Oct 18, 2023
- Universal: Sep 10, 2023
- Thomas Joseph: Sep 6, 2023
- Universal: Mar 23, 2023
- Universal: Jan 13, 2023
- Universal: Dec 24, 2022
- Wall Street Journal: Nov 25, 2022
- LA Times: Oct 6, 2022
- New York Times: Sep 22, 2022
- Universal: Jul 31, 2022
- LA Times: May 27, 2022
- Newsday: May 13, 2022
- Thomas Joseph: Mar 30, 2022