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fleece

noun

1 fleece

The wool of a sheep or similar animal.

Roget 223: covering, cover; baldachin, baldachino, baldaquin; canopy, tilt, awning, tent, marquee, tente d'abri [Fr.], umbrella, parasol, sunshade; ... show more

2 fleece

Tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing.

synonym: sheepskin.

Dutch: nappa, schaapsleder, schaapsleer, schapeleer, schapenleer
Polish: kożuch, baranica, baranek, baran

3 fleece

A soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing.

Polish: polar

4 fleece

Outer coat of especially sheep and yaks.

synonym: wool.

Dutch: wol
Polish: wełna

verb

1 fleece

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.

synonyms: gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge.

Roget 814: be dear etc. adj.; cost much, cost a pretty penny; rise in price, look up.    [demand a price in excess of value] overcharge, bleed, fleece, extort.    [pay a price in excess of value] pay too much, ... show more

Roget 804: be poor etc. adj.; want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny ... show more

Roget 789: take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept.    reap, crop, cull, ... show more

Roget 791: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; ... show more

Dutch: ontroven

2 fleece

Shear the wool from.

synonym: shear.


Moby thesaurus: Leatherette, Leatheroid, alabaster, bare, beat, beguile of, bilk, bleed, bleed white, blubber, breeze, bristle, bunco, burn, butter, capillament, chalk, cheat, chisel, chouse ... show more.

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fleeced

adjective

Roget 804: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, ... show more

Moby thesaurus: beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, deprived, disadvantaged, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant, necessitous, needy, on relief, out at elbows, pauperized, poverty-stricken, starveling ... show more.

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