shorn

/ʃiə/

Thân thiện

The baby's shorn curls lay in a small pile on the floor.

Definition

Adjective 1. Having had hair, wool, or another covering cut or clipped off: Describes something or someone from which such material has been removed, typically using shears or clippers. 2. Deprived or stripped of something: Used figuratively to describe being stripped of a possession, quality, or attribute.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The shorn sheep huddled together for warmth after the shearing.
  • He looked much younger with his shorn head.
  • The company was shorn of its most profitable assets during the restructuring.

Advanced Usage

• "Shorn of": A common prepositional phrase indicating what has been removed or stripped away.
  • The treaty, shorn of its most controversial clauses, was finally signed.
  • He felt shorn of all dignity after the public humiliation.

Variants and Related Words

• Shear (verb): The action of cutting wool or hair from an animal or person, or cutting through something with force.
  • Farmers shear their sheep in the spring.
• Shears (noun, plural): A cutting tool resembling large scissors.
  • He trimmed the hedge with garden shears.

Synonyms

• Clipped: Cut short or trimmed.
• Cropped: Cut very short.
• Shaven: Having hair removed by shaving (often implies a very smooth result).
• Divested: Formally stripped of rights, property, or a role (for the figurative sense).

Idioms and Phrases

• "Naked as a shorn sheep": Completely exposed or stripped bare, both literally and figuratively.
  • After the scandal, his reputation was left naked as a shorn sheep.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• sheared