shorn
/ʃɔrn/
adjective
- Having had hair, wool, or fur cut off close to the skin.
- The shorn poodle shivered in the cold air.
- The shorn sheep looked much smaller without their thick wool.
- He walked in with a freshly shorn head, his scalp pale in the sunlight.
- Deprived or stripped of something, often used figuratively.
- He felt shorn of his dignity after the public embarrassment.
- The tree stood shorn of its leaves after the storm.
- The company was shorn of its assets after the bankruptcy.
Antonyms
verb
- Past participle of shear; to have cut off hair, wool, or something similar.
- The hedge had been shorn into neat geometric shapes.
- The farmer has shorn all the sheep before summer.
- She had shorn her long hair into a short bob.