[flees] 
noun, verb, fleeced, fleec⋅ing.| 1. | the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal. |
| 2. | the wool shorn from a sheep at one shearing. |
| 3. | something resembling a fleece: a fleece of clouds in a blue sky. |
| 4. | a fabric with a soft, silky pile, used for warmth, as for lining garments. |
| 5. | the soft nap or pile of such a fabric. |
| 6. | to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle: He fleeced the stranger of several dollars. |
| 7. | to remove the fleece of (a sheep). |
| 8. | to overspread, as with a fleece; fleck with fleecelike masses: a host of clouds fleecing the summer sky. |
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