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clipped

/klɪpt/ adjective B2
  1. Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
  2. With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
  3. Circumcised.
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She solemnly clipped one of Diana’s curls.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 125 · C1
Anne’s clipped head made a sensation in school on the following Monday, but to her relief nobody guessed the real reason for it, not even Josie Pye, who, however, did not fail to inform Anne that she looked like a perfect scarecrow.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 218 · C1
He at once clipped the Jackdaw’s wings, and taking him home at night, gave him to his children.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 88 · B2
AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 98 · B2

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