Associations to the word «Shorn»

Wiktionary

SHORN, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of shear

Dictionary definition

SHORN, adjective. 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".

Wise words

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