Shorn

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shear \Shear\ (sh[=e]r), v. t. [imp. {Sheared}or {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.
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     Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from
           sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
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     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.
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              Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.
                                                    --Shak.
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     3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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     4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
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     5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See
        {Shear}, n., 4.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shorn \Shorn\,
     p. p. of {Shear}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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