sheer
shir
- v turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- v cause to sheer
She sheered her car around the obstacle - s complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
got the job through sheer persistence
sheer stupidity - s not mixed with extraneous elements
sheer wine - s very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
a sheer descent of rock - s so thin as to transmit light
sheer silk stockings - r straight up or down without a break
- r directly
he fell sheer into the water
- Instead of blouses, they wore sheer swaths of tulle over bare breasts.
- And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft.
- Five years ago, Ghada Jamsheer was at the courts in Bahrain when she saw a woman sobbing and banging her head on the ground; applying Islamic law, a judge had just denied her .