or sheared(
1 [VN] to cut the wool off a sheep:
It was time for the sheep to be shorn. * sheep shearing
2 [VN] )formal( to cut off sb's hair:
shorn hair
3 ~ )sth( )off( )technical( )especially of metal( to break under pressure; to cut through sth and make it break:
[V] The bolts holding the wheel in place sheared off. [also VN]
PHRASALVERBS
be shorn of sth )literary( to have sth important taken away from you:
Shorn of his power, the deposed king went into exile.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for shear is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does shear appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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