eng: sheer

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Meaning
means	(verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" sheer, curve, slew, cut, trend, swerve, veer, slue
means	(verb) cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle" sheer
means	(adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" out-and-out, rank, downright, right-down, sheer, absolute
means	(adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" plain, unmingled, unmixed, sheer
means	(adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock" bluff, bold, sheer
means	(adjective) so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" gauzy, gossamer, vaporous, transparent, cobwebby, filmy, vapourous, see-through, diaphanous, sheer, gauze-like
means	(adverb) straight up or down without a break perpendicularly, sheer
means	(adverb) directly; "he fell sheer into the water" sheer