Cut off Crossword Clue
While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Cut off crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on January 4 2024 Wall Street Journal Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Cut off has a total of 5 letters.
| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | SHEAR | Cut off | Wall Street Journal |
| 20% | CRUST | It may be cut off a sandwich | Universal |
| 20% | GHOSTRIGHT | Suddenly cut off all communication with … but do so nicely? | New York Times |
| 20% | HEMIN | Cut off from escape | LA Times |
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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- LA Times: Nov 15, 2023
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- Universal: Oct 17, 2023
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- LA Times: Sep 23, 2023
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- Wall Street Journal: Jul 21, 2023
- Thomas Joseph: Jul 18, 2023
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- Wall Street Journal: Jun 21, 2023
- LA Times: Jun 10, 2023
- Thomas Joseph: May 4, 2023
- Thomas Joseph: May 3, 2023
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