While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Cut close crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on February 14 2025 LA Times Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Cut close has a total of 5 letters.
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Definition
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To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a
like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
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To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument;
to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
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To reap, as grain.
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Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
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To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear,
n., 4.
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A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but
formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
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A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
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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.
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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.
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To deviate. See Sheer.
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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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LA Times Crossword, February 14 2025
The answer we have in our database for "Cut close" is: SHEAR
There are a total of 5 letters in SHEAR
The crossword clue "Cut close" was last spotted on February 14 2025
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