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— English words —

• shearing adj. Tending to cut or tear.
• shearing v. Present participle of shear.
• shearing n. The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
• shearing n. The material cut off in this way.
• shearing n. Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
• shearing n. Alternative form of shearling.
• shearing n. (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
• shearing n. The act or operation of dividing with shears.
• shearing n. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
• shearing n. (Mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

— English words, defined in German —

• shearing Partz. Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs shear.
• shearing S. Schubumformung.

— English word, defined in French —

• shearing v. Participe présent du verbe to shear.

52 English words from 10 English definitions

act acting Alternative clipping cloth coal cut cut␣off cutting cutting␣in Deformation directions dividing face forces form from into machine making material Mining nap off operation opposite participle preparing Present Present␣participle process reaping Scotland shear shearing shearling shears shear␣steel sheep side steel tear Tending the this this␣way tilting vertical way with wool working

6 English words from 3 foreign definitions

des participle present present␣participle shear Verbs

7 foreign words from 3 foreign definitions

Participe Participe␣présent Partizip Partizip␣Präsens Präsens présent verbe

3 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

shearings shearing␣shed shearing␣sheds

2 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

mishearings sheepshearings

7 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

beshearing mishearing reshearing nonshearing woolshearing hydroshearing sheepshearing

32 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Ari ARI Arin ARIN A␣ring ear EAR 'ear earing hea HEA hea' hear hearin' hearing ing -ing -ïng rin ring Ring she She SHE s/he she- (s)he shea Shea shear Shear Shearin

10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ehs EHS EH&S GNI Ira IRA NIR N.␣Ir. NIRA Rae

3 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

gnashier hearings hearsing

50 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

angishore ashlering degarnish earthings earth␣sign gardenish garnished garnishee garnisher garnishes Germanish hangfires hang␣fires hangs␣fire Hardinges harelings Hassinger headrings heartings incharges ingathers kashering narghiles nargilehs near␣sight orangeish phasering rashering reachings recashing rechasing regarnish rehashing rephasing reshading reshaking reshaping resharing reshaving rewashing ringheads Ringheads Riphagens searching shearings shearling sherpaing shmearing shrinkage washering

45 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Aigners Angiers Angries arshine earings Engrish erasing gainers Gainers garnish Garnish Gearins gnasher graines Greshan Hagners hangers Hangers Harings hearing hegaris hegiras hernias hersing hingers inrages nearish negrish raignes rashing reagins Reagins regains regians reginas rehangs rehings searing Searing Seraing seringa shangie sharing Shearin signare

14 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

chearing sheading sheafing shealing Shearins sheaving sheering shen␣ring skearing smearing spearing Spearing stearing swearing

5 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

hearing searing Searing sharing Shearin

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

shearling shmearing

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