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SHORN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

naked as a sheared sheep

Synonyms:

sheared; shorn

Classified under:

Adjectives

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past participle of the verb shear

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 Context examples: 

In the ditch beside the road, right side up but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupé which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)