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Shirk
- verb - avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
- avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"
Shirr
- verb - bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set; "shirr the eggs"
- Verb - In sewing, to shirr (shirring) is to make two or more rows of gathers used to decorate parts of garments, usually the sleeves, bodice or yoke.
Shirt
- noun - a garment worn on the upper half of the body
- put a shirt on
Shore
- noun - a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support
- arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
- serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"
- support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building"
- the land along the edge of a body of water
Shorn
- adjective - 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"
Short
- adjective - (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
- A drink of spirits.
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"
- cheat someone by not returning him enough money
- clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
- create a short circuit in
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it"
- lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
- less than the correct