Found 4 hits - Term: shorn, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shear \shear\ sh=er, 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.
1913 webster
note: it is especially applied to the cutting of wool from
sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.
--shak.
1913 webster
3. to reap, as grain. scot. --jamieson.
1913 webster
4. fig.: to deprive of property; to fleece.
1913 webster
5. mech. to produce a change of shape in by a shear. see
shear, n., 4.
1913 webster
see also:
sheared shore shorn shearing jeer score
shard share sheer shear
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shorn \shorn\,
p. p. of shear.
1913 webster
see also:
shear
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
shorn
adj : 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
ant: unsheared
see also:
sheared unsheared
- [4] : 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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