Synonyms for shorn
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : shawrn, shohrn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʃɔrn, ʃoʊrn |
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Définition of shorn
Origin :- "shaven," late Old English scoren, past participle adjective from shear (v.).
- verb clip, cut
- God, who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, will watch over you!
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- You'll be shorn like a lamb one of these days, with your benevolence.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- Though they may be shorn of their glory, they retain their place in the organism of knowledge.
- Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato
- When it was all shorn off she crept out of the room without opening her eyes.
- Extract from : « The Very Small Person » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
- Shorn was the unkempt mop of hair and vanished the impudent swagger.
- Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- The yard, which had been so attractive, was shorn of its decorations.
- Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- But the limitations of Alaskan conditions have shorn all profit from the enterprise.
- Extract from : « Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled » by Hudson Stuck
- But we--ah we, on how many occasions have we been unwilling to be shorn of that which was our right.
- Extract from : « The Calvary Road » by Roy Hession
- But without a dollar he would be like Samson shorn of his locks.
- Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine
- Hogs and Tegs: the first shearing of sheep that have not been shorn as lambs.
- Extract from : « Vegetable Dyes » by Ethel M. Mairet
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