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Cut close

While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Cut close crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on April 20 2024 New York Times Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Cut close has a total of 5 letters.

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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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Rank	Answer	Clue	Publisher
99%	SHEAR	Cut close	New York Times

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