Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers.
1 The Scotland team was shorn of several players due to work commitments.
2 Mr Baker said the mines were profitable when shorn of their debt.
3 The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.
4 The assembly of the people had been shorn of its legislative powers.
5 The hair below this line is closely shorn ; above, it stays long.
6 It is kept in large flocks, and regularly shorn as sheep are.
7 We are told that He tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
8 Half the little place had been shorn away by the first change.
9 Through it came Lib's voice, loud and welcome, Randy, are you shorn ?
10 The mob becomes shorn of will-power and blindly obedient to its dictator.
11 The fact of their being lost was shorn of half its terrors.
12 I was a shorn lamb, and he tempered the winds for me.
13 Once more King Philip, shorn of his prestige, comes upon the scene.
14 But when the words finally came, they were shorn of all euphemism.
15 His armour was dinted and his plume shorn away from his helmet.
16 From time to time he raised his closely - shorn head and looked thither.
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