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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHORN pp. of shear.
1. Cut off; as a lock of wool shorn.
2. Having the hair or wool cut off or sheared; as a shorn lamb.
3. Deprived; as a prince shorn of his honors.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, shorn] [ant: unsheared, unshorn]

Merriam Webster's

past participle of shear

Oxford Reference Dictionary

past part. of SHEAR.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shear Shear, v. t. [imp. Shearedor Shore;p. p. Sheared or Shorn; p. pr. & vb. n. Shearing.] [OE. sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. ski?re, Gr. ???. Cf. Jeer, Score, Shard, Share, Sheer to turn aside.] 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth. 2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away. --Shak. 3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] --Jamieson. 4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece. 5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shorn Shorn, p. p. of Shear.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If grass or hair is shorn, it has been cut very short. (LITERARY) ...his shorn hair. ADJ 2. If a person or thing is shorn of something that was an important part of them, it has been removed from them. (LITERARY) She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity. ADJ: v-link ADJ of n 3. Shorn is the past participle of shear.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Cut off. 2. Deprived.

Moby Thesaurus

abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, belittled, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, consumed, contracted, curtailed, cut off, decreased, deflated, denuded, deprived of, diminished, dissipated, divested, dropped, eroded, fallen, lacking, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, minus, out of, parted from, reduced, retrenched, robbed of, scaled-down, shorn of, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, stripped of, wanting, watered-down, weakened, worn