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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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