shear off

phrasal verb

sheared off; sheared off or shorn off; shearing off; shears off

1

: to become separated suddenly because of great force

The excess weight caused the bolt to shear off.

2

: to remove (something) with great force

The impact of the crash sheared off the airplane's wing.

Examples of shear off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The plane, struggling to gain altitude, only rose a few hundred feet in the air after takeoff before suddenly dropping toward the bridge, shearing off the tops of cars and crashing into the river. —Megan Forrester, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2025

He's captured dozens of videos over decades of trucks getting the tops of their trailers sheared off, the screeching loud enough to give someone goosebumps. —Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2024

And so, in Hudson Square, an elevated railway station got sheared off, stripped down, and extended into a Google nerve center (by CookFox). —Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2024

These 10 stars sheared off their hair in order to deliver the most authentic performance possible. —Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024

Rhymes for shear off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff