shorn

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Verb (usu participle)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective shorn has 1 sense

  • shorn(a = adj.all) sheared - 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"

CIDE DICTIONARY

shornp. p. 
     p. p. of Shear.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

shorn, past part. of SHEAR.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

shorn

Shortness

N shortness, brevity, littleness, a span, shortening, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation, reduction, epitome, elision, ellipsis, conciseness, abridger, epitomist, epitomizer, short, brief, curt, compendious, compact, stubby, scrimp, shorn, stubbed, stumpy, thickset, pug, chunky, decurtate, retrousse, stocky, squab, squabby, squat, dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by, oblate, concise, summary, shortly, in short.


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