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shorn

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shorn  (shôrn, shrn)
v.
A past participle of shear.
shorn [ʃɔːn]
vb
a past participle of shear
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Adj.1.shorn - 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"
sheared
Translations
shorn [ˈʃɔːrn]
pp of shear
adj
shorn of sth [+ power, protection] → dépouillé(e) de qch
shorn ptp of shear
adj
to be shorn of something → einer Sache (gen) → entkleidet sein
sheep → geschoren; head → (kahl) geschoren; her shorn locks → ihr kurz geschorenes Haar
shorn [ʃɔːn]
1. pp of shear
2. adj
a. (grass) → tosato/a; (head) → rasato/a
b. (fig) shorn of (power, glory) → privato/a di
shorn shear
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But only some side alleys, with a cross, and the quarters to graze, being kept shorn, but not too near shorn.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
The tall masts are the pillars supporting the balanced planes that, motionless and silent, catch from the air the ship's motive-power, as it were a gift from Heaven vouchsafed to the audacity of man; and it is the ship's tall spars, stripped and shorn of their white glory, that incline themselves before the anger of the clouded heaven.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore -- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore
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