Shorn is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHORN in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHEAR, to cut the wool or hair from
• cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal)
• cut off (something such as hair, wool, or grass), with scissors or shears
• have something cut off
• break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain
NOUN:
• a strain produced by pressure in the structure of a substance, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other
ADJECTIVE:
• having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cut the hair or wool from
• past participle ofshear
• p. p. of Shear.
• a past participle of shear

Words related to SHORN

shear8 sheared11 shearing12 shears9 shore8

Words that contain SHORN

dishorn11 unshorn10 dishorns12 gemshorn14 ramshorn13 dishorned14 gemshorns15 hartshorn15 ramshorns14 dishorning15 hartshorns16

How to use SHORN in a sentence

• Then how he gaped and how he stared, for there beside him lay one all shaven and shorn, so that he knew that it must be a fellow in holy orders.
• Providence tempers the wind to the parents who are shorn of their lamb.
• Without them, Christmas would be shorn of its greatest attraction.
• Ragon thinks that it is a symbol of the sun shorn of its vigor by the three winter months, and restored to generative power by the spring.
• It had, however, fallen somewhat on one side, and had shorn off the scalp, ear, and part of the cheek.
• It was as though the side issues had been shorn away, so that the main struggle was thenceforth on simpler lines.
• He had felt at times the heritage of this strength, shorn of its power by the softness of a wilderness that had been wooed instead of conquered.
• They left an ugly gaping space upon the tree, so that the Lebanon looked unfinished, half destroyed, a monster shorn of its old-time comeliness and splendor.
• Over them he will appoint a descendant of David, but this prince shall be shorn of his ancient kingly power.
• Bare and shorn as it is of its ancient magnificence, St.
• While President Johnson was retained in office he was practically shorn of the greater part of the power and patronage that attaches to the office.
• The rampart next the Danube has been shorn of its fair proportions, so as to make it suit the modern art of war.
• The jungle is studded with large peepul-trees, which are all shorn of their small branches and leaves.
• Far to the southeast it wound among the bold and rock-ribbed bluffs rising from the forest growth at their base to shorn and rounded summits.
• Rome is shorn of the locks which lent grace to her venerable brow.
• He went out to look for wool, and comes home shorn.
• Some of these were seriously shorn sheep, yet Rose would not for worlds have hurt their feelings by forgetting to invite them.
• And Bobby looked after him until he saw the stake-driver, shorn of his fine clothes, sweep over his head and go flying up the creek again.
• Speaking of Berne, a little occurrence has just recalled the Burgerschaft, which, shorn of its glory as it is, had some most praiseworthy regulations.
• Mourn For the hat that is flat And the collar of which you were shorn.
• In his case, too, daylight exhibited him shorn, and his locks scattered around.
• Shorn of his locks, he delivered his speech in his most impressive manner.
• Shorn of the thick, seal-brown winter hair, the brand was now plainly visible.
• Furthermore, necessity being the mother of invention, not a few of the shorn brethren made up for the prohibition of fish and flesh, by becoming expert cooks.

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