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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 is pronounced /ˈʃɔɹn/ — shawrn. 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.