deprive+of+fleece

  • 51shears — n. large scissor like tool, clippers; cutting implement ʃɪr /ʃɪə v. cut off hair or fleece; trim with a sharp tool; deprive of, take away …

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  • 52despoil — v. a. 1. Strip, denude, divest, deprive, bereave. 2. Rob, plunder, pillage, ravage, devastate, rifle, fleece …

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  • 53rob — v. a. 1. Plunder, strip, despoil, fleece, pillage, rook. 2. Take from, deprive …

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  • 54rob — verb 1) the gang robbed the local bank Syn: burgle, burglarize, steal from, hold up, break into; raid, loot, plunder, pillage; informal knock off, stick up 2) he robbed an old woman Syn: steal from; …

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  • 55despoil — v 1. plunder, pillage, rob, spoliate, Archaic. spoil, Chiefly Scot. reive; ravage, harry, rape, maraud, ravish, depredate; raid, forage, ransack, sack, loot, gut, fleece, rifle; desecrate, defile, outrage, violate. 2. devastate, lay waste,… …

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  • 56extort — v 1. wrest, wrench, tear from, wring, extract; blackmail, milk, squeeze, get out of, Inf. bleed, pry out, obtain by force; Sl. shake down, Inf. put the bite or squeeze or shake on, put the arm on [s.o.], Sl. lean on or against [s.o.], put the… …

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  • 57shear — v 1. cut, shave, fleece, poll, cut off, remove, retrench; trim, clip, snip off, shingle, crop, cut back, lop off, dock, prune. 2.Usu. shear of strip, deprive, divest, remove, take away, relieve of. n 3. shears large scissors, sewing shears,… …

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  • 58skin — [[t]skɪn[/t]] n. v. skinned, skin•ning, adj. 1) anat. zool. the external covering or integument of an animal body, esp. when soft and flexible 2) such an integument stripped from the body of an animal, esp. a small animal; pelt: a beaver… …

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  • 59skin — /skɪn / (say skin) noun 1. the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible. 2. such an integument stripped from the body of an animal; pelt. 3. any integumentary covering, outer coating, or surface layer,… …

  • 60cheat — [n1] person who fools others bluff, charlatan, chiseler, con artist, confidence operator, conniver, cozener, crook, deceiver, decoy, defrauder, dodger, double crosser*, doubledealer*, enticer, fake, hypocrite, impostor, inveigler, jockey,… …

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