shear

/ʃɪr/ v [T] (past tense sheared, past participle sheared or shorn /ʃɔrn/, /ʃoʊrn/) (CUT)

Definition

› to cut off the hair of an animal or a person: The barber sheared Jim’s hair, just like you’d shear a sheep.

(Definition of shear v (CUT) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to do something that spoils someone's plans

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