shorn
pronunciation
How to pronounce shorn in British English:
UK [ʃɔ:n]
How to pronounce shorn in American English:
US [ʃɔrn]
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- Adjective:
- having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers
Word Origin
- shorn (adj.)
- "shaven," late Old English scoren, past participle adjective from shear (v.).
Example
- 1. The native people have been unjustly shorn of their rights to their ancient .
- 2. Hair shorn on these occasions was never kept .
- 3. Lithuanians , shorn of their middle class under soviet occupation , are impressed by experience abroad .
- 4. He came home shorn of everything .
- 5. He looked strange with his closely shorn head .