shorn

Meaning of shorn

verb, past participle
  1. cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal).
    Paul has never sheared a sheep before
    demonstrations of sheep shearing
  2. break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain.
    the gear sheared and jammed in the rear wheel
    three bolts had been completely sheared off

Old English sceran (originally in the sense ‘cut through with a weapon’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German scheren, from a base meaning ‘divide, shear, shave’.

Information about shorn

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of shorn

shorn

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • shorn is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

shorn synonyms

Meaning sheared:

sheared

Anagrams of shorn

horns

Words that rhyme with shorn

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