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Like some monks' heads
Answer for the clue "Like some monks' heads ", 5 letters:
shorn
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Word definitions for shorn in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES be shorn of sth
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: sheared ] [ant: unsheared ]
Usage examples of shorn.
I dipped to a vol-pique, but again a tentacle fell over the monoplane and was shorn off by the propeller as easily as it might have cut through a smoke wreath.
In the participle passive many of them are formed by en, as taken, shaken, forsaken, broken, spoken, born, shorn, sworn, torn, worn, woven, cloven, thriven, driven, risen, smitten, ridden, chosen, trodden, gotten, begotten, forgotten, sodden.
And when I dismounted from the wind and in the Sanhedrim my pinions were shorn, even then my ribs, my featherless wings, kept and guarded the song.
Looking thus at life, shorn of its superrational sanctions, Saxon floundered into the morass of pessimism.
She ended her question in midshout when she saw Hawkril shorn of his armor, a hairy muscled colossus in sweat-soaked leather breeches, hacking for all he was worth with the blades he held in both hands at three thrusting swords, or more, that were stabbing into the room from the dark passage outside.
Gallia Comata, the Arverni could expand their business ventures and increase their wealth shorn of fear of invasion, pillageand rape.
He was wearing a tuxedo: shorn, clean-shaven, with a white boutonniere tucked into his lapel.
Then came more meadows, some already shorn, some heavy with hay, and more dovecotes and orchards.
I declare, Miss Dunstable, the honour you are doing me is shorn of half its glory.
He was ruthless and quick, and soon stood before Yagharek with a pasty chin, inexpertly shorn of whiskers, bleeding and patched with copses of stubble.
The netman casts, and then hauls in his catch of metal dust, and scraps of burst balloons, and shorn butterfly wings carried aloft in the whirling unceasing wind.
The skinhead has raised an unexpected image, that of the shorn European Jew filmed by Allied liberators at places like Dachau and Nordhausen more than four decades ago.
It made Stark a First Cook with a First and Fourth, dropped Willard back to Second Cook and First and Sixth, and sent Pfc Sims back to straight duty shorn of his Sixth Class.
Shorn rhinos strained against leather traces, pulling massive blocks across rolling logs.
Behind them came gigantipithicus apes and shorn rhinos, goblins and mule men.