shorn
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6.6
- adjective
- /ʃɔrn/
:
cortado
- Red Murdock helped her up the short bank, and they crossed her field, the path he'd mown for her, the shorn patch of lawn behind her house where monkshead bloomed like bits of blue and white china under the backdoor light.
All is fair beneath the wig and robe, unless you are unclothed and your head is shorn.
- All is fair beneath the wig and robe, unless you are unclothed and your head is shorn.
- Those are much bigger than that, and those are even shorn, so if they really like their spot, it's possible that plants can get a little bit bigger on occasion.
Examples
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And she rushes to serve the Sabbath meal, which in obedience to piety, she does in stark, devotional silence as if suddenly shorn of worldly needs.
Fiction book (2001) -
The man's eyes linger, then stop short at my shorn head and raw staring-back eyes.
Fiction book (1992) -
Take a look, a round mirror and a short smile on a shorn head.
Fiction book (2001) -
But Columbine is done and needs to be shorn back for sure.
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The shorn stubble of her mane under his hand, he stepped up onto the rim.
Fiction book (1992) -
Surprised to be alone a moment, toes pinched with cold, she stops in the roar of water beside the beck to sketch the shorn fields.
Fiction book (2000) -
Then they piled the shorn pigtails onto planks, adorned them with flaming paper candles, and delivered the little ships into the tide.
Fiction book (1997) -
After getting a haircut, she admired her reflection and smiled at her shorn hair.
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The boy decided to shave his head completely, leaving him with a shorn look for the summer.
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In the spring, the shepherd took his sheep to the fields, proud of their shorn wool.
Synonyms
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2.7
Almost no hair on the face or head because it is cut close to the skin
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Hair cut very close to the skin
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1.0
Neat and short after being trimmed with scissors or a machine
Cut close to the skin from hair, wool, or fur, often with clippers
Cut to look neat by removing extra or uneven parts
Antonyms
How Hairy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shorn comes from the past form of shear, which means 'to cut', and is related to shears, the tool used to cut wool or hair. So, to be shorn is to have hair or wool 'cut off', which is why we say a sheep or a person is shorn after clipping.