SHORN DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
shorn adj 1: 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" [syn: sheared, shorn] [ant: unsheared, unshorn] shorn ʃɔ:n See: GOD TEMPERS THE WIND TO THE SHORN LAMB. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) shorn past participle of shear Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary shorn 1. If grass or hair is shorn, it has been cut very short. (LITERARY) ...his shorn hair. ADJ 2. If a person or thing is shorn of something that was an important part of them, it has been removed from them. (LITERARY) She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity. ADJ: v-link ADJ of n 3. Shorn is the past participle of shear. English Explanatory Dictionary shorn ʃɔ:n past part. of SHEAR. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Shear \Shear\, v. t. [imp. Shearedor Shore;p. p. Sheared or Shorn; p. pr. & vb. n. Shearing.] [OE. sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. ski?re, Gr. ???. Cf. Jeer, Score, Shard, Share, Sheer to turn aside.] 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth. 2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. --Shak. 3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] --Jamieson. 4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece. 5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Shorn \Shorn\, p. p. of Shear. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms shorn a. 1. Cut off. 2. Deprived. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 45 Moby Thesaurus words for "shorn": abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, consumed, contracted, curtailed, cut off, decreased, deflated, denuded, deprived of, diminished, dissipated, divested, dropped, eroded, fallen, lacking, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, minus, out of, parted from, reduced, retrenched, robbed of, scaled-down, shorn of, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, stripped of, wanting, watered-down, weakened, worn |
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