shorn

IPA: ʃˈɔrn

adjective

  • Of a sheep, etc., having been shorn.
  • Of a person, having had a haircut.
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Examples of "shorn" in Sentences

  • But first the American sheeple will have to wake up, object to being "shorn", and pick up their pots and pans!
  • Shorts is also in the same family of words, conveying the idea of pants that have been cut, shorn, or shortened.
  • 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 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.
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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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