Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Past participle of shear.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
shear .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shear .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers
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Examples
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It is well known that the wool of sheep dying of disease, if it had not been shorn from the animal while living, and also skins, if not thoroughly prepared by scouring, are liable to the effects described in this passage.
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Deprived at one blow of most of his precedents, "shorn" -- as the Breach of Promise Reports puts it -- "of its usual attractions," FIBBINS's speech becomes an impotent affair.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891 Various
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He seemed to her always a kind of shorn Samson when afield from politics, and now, as she had often done, she drew him to speak of what he knew best.
The Henchman Mark Lee Luther
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A woman would not like to be "shorn" or (what is worse) "shaven"; but if she chooses to be uncovered (unveiled) in front, let her be so also behind, that is, "shorn."
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The former MP said the SNP's plan for a referendum Bill, which offers a say on degrees of enhanced devolution, will leave Scotland "shorn" of the power needed.
unknown title 2009
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The former MP said the SNP's plan for a referendum Bill, which offers a say on degrees of enhanced devolution, will leave Scotland "shorn" of the power needed.
unknown title 2009
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But first the American sheeple will have to wake up, object to being "shorn", and pick up their pots and pans!
Dissident Voice 2009
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But first the American sheeple will have to wake up, object to being "shorn", and pick up their pots and pans!
Dissident Voice 2009
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The former MP said the SNP's plan for a referendum Bill, which offers a say on degrees of enhanced devolution, will leave Scotland "shorn" of the power needed.
unknown title 2009
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Shorts is also in the same family of words, conveying the idea of pants that have been cut, shorn, or shortened.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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