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Meanings of shorn in English

Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers.

Usage of shorn in English
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The Scotland team was shorn of several players due to work commitments.
The Irish Times
2
Mr Baker said the mines were profitable when shorn of their debt.
Radio NZ
3
The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.
The road
4
The assembly of the people had been shorn of its legislative powers.
Caesar: A Sketch
5
The hair below this line is closely shorn; above, it stays long.
The Guardian
6
It is kept in large flocks, and regularly shorn as sheep are.
The Forest Exiles: The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds ...
7
We are told that He tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
8
Half the little place had been shorn away by the first change.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
9
Through it came Lib's voice, loud and welcome, Randy, are you shorn?
Alas, Babylon
10
The mob becomes shorn of will-power and blindly obedient to its dictator.
The Art of Public Speaking
11
The fact of their being lost was shorn of half its terrors.
The American Family Robinson / or, The Adventures of a Family lo...
12
I was a shorn lamb, and he tempered the winds for me.
Beulah
13
Once more King Philip, shorn of his prestige, comes upon the scene.
The Beginnings of New England / Or the Puritan Theocracy in its ...
14
But when the words finally came, they were shorn of all euphemism.
The Taming of Red Butte Western
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His armour was dinted and his plume shorn away from his helmet.
A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes
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From time to time he raised his closely-shorn head and looked thither.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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