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Shorn

/ʃˈɔrn/
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(verb) past participle of shear

The king was shorn of his power.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The sheep looked surprisingly thin after they had been ____ of their thick winter wool by the farmers.

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