Meaning & use
shorn
Having had hair, wool, or another covering cut off closely; the past participle of shear.
See it in a sentence
The newly shorn sheep looked much smaller once their thick winter wool was gone.
He returned from basic training with a close-shorn haircut and a stiffer posture.
A note on using this word
Shorn is often followed by of to mean stripped or deprived of something, as in shorn of his usual confidence.
Words with a similar meaning
clippedsheared
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Words with an opposite meaning
unshorn
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