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Synonyms for sheared

The synonym for sheared recorded in this bank is shorn, in the sense "having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for sheared

shornadjective, in the sense "having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for sheared.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High Camp

having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers

Naked as a sheared sheep.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

shorn

Same sentence, swapped: Naked as a shorn sheep.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

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Where sheared turns up in the game

sheared is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play sheared

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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