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shorn

American  
[shawrn, shohrn] / ʃɔrn, ʃoʊrn /

verb

  1. a past participle of shear.

shorn British  
/ ʃɔːn /

verb

  1. a past participle of shear

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Other Word Forms

  • unshorn adjective

Example Sentences

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As she drifts through town, feeling suddenly shorn of her identity, she comes across a traveling circus and is somehow taken on as a volunteer for the sawing-in-half trick, which involves hiding inside a box.

From The Wall Street Journal

There it stood now, as I stepped back into the shop, still tall and gleaming on its concrete block, but shorn now of eminence.

From Literature

However, the sale means the group is shorn of its most profitable division, raising the danger that it falls short of its revenue growth forecasts.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dempsey had been shorn of many things by a thunderous Ireland performance - a revisiting of a familiar narrative.

From BBC

Sherwood also steered Villa away from the drop but, shorn of influential stars Christian Benteke and Fabian Delph in the summer, was sacked after six successive defeats left them bottom in October.

From BBC

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