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Synonyms for sheared
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers
Naked as a sheared sheep.
The true synonym
shorn
Same sentence, swapped: Naked as a shorn sheep.
Close but different
These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for sheared as it is used in the sentence above.
- snub
- abbreviated
- abridged
Closest first: other words at High Camp, then their alphabetical neighbours.
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