fleece

fleece
n
1. coat, coating, covering, hide; pelage, fur, hair, plumage, feathers; wool, down, fluff, fuzz; shag, pile, nap; Bot., Zool. pubescence, Bot. tomen-tum, Bot. villus; Biol. (usu. of newborns) lanugo.
v
2. shear, clip, poll, flay; shorten, trim, pare, cut off; strip, bare, denude.
3. swindle, defraud, mulct, shark, cheat, Inf. flimflam, rook, bilk, Inf. welsh, Brit. Sl. levant, Inf. do out of, Inf. gyp, Inf. bunko, Inf. diddle, Inf. take, Inf. take [s.o.] for a ride, Inf. take [s.o.] to the cleaners, Sl. pluck, Sl. chisel, Sl. clip; overcharge, Sl. soak, Sl. sting, Inf. rip off.
4. rob, steal, thieve, pilfer, purloin, filch; peculate, embezzle; shoplift, Sl. boost; extort, blackmail, Sl. bleed.
5. plunder, despoil, pillage, ravage, rape; maraud, ransack, sack, loot, gut, strip, rifle; raid, foray, forage.
6. overspread, shroud, cloud, becloud, mantle; coat, cover, film; fleck, dapple, dot.

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