Definition of shorn

"shorn" in the adjective sense

1. sheared, shorn

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"

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Quotations for shorn

As rich as a new-shorn sheep. [ Proverb ]

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. [ Sterne ]

Many that go out for wool come home shorn. [ Proverb ]

You came for wool but shall return shorn yourself. [ Proverb ]

To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure. (This is probably the origin of God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

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Words within the letters of shorn

2 letter words in shorn (6 words)

no oh on or os so

3 letter words in shorn (6 words)

nor nos ohs ors rho son

4 letter words in shorn (2 words)

horn rhos

5 letter words in shorn (Anagrams) (2 words)

horns shorn

shorn + 1 blank (5 words)

herons honers honors rhinos thorns

shorn + 2 blanks (23 words)

adhorns anchors archons dehorns dishorn hadrons heroins honours hornets horsing inshore nourish onshore orphans rehones reshown saxhorn shoring shorten thrones throngs unhorse unshorn

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Words containing the sequence shorn

Words that start with shorn (1 word)

shorn

Words with shorn in them (6 words)

shorn dishorned dishorner dishorners dishorning dishorns

Words that end with shorn (3 words)

dishorn shorn unshorn

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dishorn dishorned

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