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say it: shawrn
shorn is an adjective meaning "having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shorn come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.