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shorn
shorn S0362000 (shôrn)v.A past participle of shear.shorn (ʃɔːn) vb a past participle of shearshear (ʃɪər)
v. sheared, sheared shorn, shear•ing, v.t. 1. to cut (something). 2. to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping: to shear wool from sheep. 3. to cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from: to shear sheep. 4. to strip or deprive (usu. fol. by of): to shear someone of power. 5. to travel through by or as if by cutting: Chimney swifts sheared the air. 6. to subject (a solid body or structure) to shear. v.i. 7. to cut or cut through something with a sharp instrument. 8. to break along an internal plane in response to a force parallel to the plane. 9. Chiefly Scot. to reap crops with a sickle. n. 10. Usu., shears. (sometimes used with a sing. v.) a. scissors of large size (usu. used with pair of). b. any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that suggest those of scissors. 11. one blade of a pair of large scissors. 12. the act or process of shearing or being sheared. 13. a shearing of sheep (used in stating the age of sheep): a sheep of one shear. 14. the quantity, esp. of wool or fleece, cut off at one shearing. 15. Usu., shears. (usu. with a pl. v.) a framework for hoisting heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars with their legs separated, fastened together near the top and steadied by guys, which support a tackle. 16. a machine for cutting rigid material by moving the edge of a blade through it. 17. a. the tendency of a force applied to a solid body or structure, as a rock stratum, to cause deformation or rupture along a plane parallel to the force. b. deformation produced in this manner. [before 900; (v.) Middle English sheren, Old English sceran, c. Old Frisian skera, Old High German sceran, Old Norse skera; (n.) Middle English sheres (pl.); compare Old English scērero (pl.), scēar (feminine)] shear′er, n. Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | shorn - having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep"sheared |
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shorn (shôrn)v.A past participle of shearshorn
Related to shorn: shearedSynonyms for shornadj having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippersSynonyms |