shear
verb (used with object)
to cut (something).
have shorn
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present perfectof shear.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In the capital, the government says it guarantees a "Square of Security" in the center; some locals joke that rebel gains have shorn it to a rather smaller "Security Triangle".
From Reuters ● Apr. 28, 2013
The collision appeared to have shorn away the front left side of the bus, which was upright about 70 yards from the road at the bottom of a grassy slope.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2013
And his years in Mr. Karzai's inner circle seem to have shorn power of some of its glamour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2010
Since then, rules have shorn the Appropriations Committee of much of that power, but Congressmen looked at its doings last week with a wary eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
When short I have shorn my sow's face, And swigg'd my horned barrel; In an oaken inn Do I pawn my skin, As a suit of gilt apparel.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
