Scrabble and Words with Friends

• SHEAR is a valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
  

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• SHEAR is a valid Words with Friends word worth 7 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
  

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• SHEAR is a 5 letter word containing the letters a, e, h, r, s.

Definitions

• shear

  noun (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
  the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram

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• shear

  noun a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it

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• shear

  verb cut with shears
  shear hedges

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• shear

  verb shear the wool from
  shear sheep

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• shear

  verb cut or cut through with shears
  shear the wool off the lamb

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• shear

  verb become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain

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• Lookup SHEAR using the Merriam-Webster dictionary

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