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| Shopping | The largest selection of SHEER products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| ADJECTIVE | 1 | sheer, absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down | Complete and without restriction or qualification |
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| 2 | sheer, plain, unmingled, unmixed | Not mixed with extraneous elements | |
| 3 | sheer, bluff, bold | Very steep | |
| 4 | sheer, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby | So thin as to transmit light | |
| ADVERB | 1 | sheer, perpendicularly | Straight up or down without a break |
| 2 | sheer | Directly | |
| VERB | 1 | sheer, swerve, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut | Turn sharply |
| 2 | sheer | Cause to sheer |
| Sounds | shih'r |
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| Rhymes | acyclovir, adhere, amir, and 92 more rhymes in ihr... |
| Meaning | Complete and without restriction or qualification. Sometimes used informally as intensifiers. |
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| Examples | "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" |
| Synonyms | absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down |
| Similar to | complete |
| Meaning | Not mixed with extraneous elements. |
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| Examples | "sheer wine" |
| Synonyms | plain, unmingled, unmixed |
| Similar to | pure |
| Meaning | Very steep. Having a prominent and almost vertical front. |
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| Examples | "a sheer descent of rock" |
| Synonyms | bluff, bold |
| Similar to | steep |
| Meaning | So thin as to transmit light. |
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| Examples | "sheer silk stockings" |
| Synonyms | diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby |
| Similar to | thin |
| Meaning | Straight up or down without a break. |
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| Synonyms | perpendicularly |
| Meaning | Directly. |
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| Examples | "he fell sheer into the water" |
| Meaning | Turn sharply. Change direction abruptly. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
| Synonyms | swerve, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut |
| Broader | turn |
| Narrower | peel off; yaw |
| Meaning | Cause to sheer. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "She sheered her car around the obstacle" |
| Broader | steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise |
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