Sheer is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHEER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to swerve, to deviate
• (typically of a boat) swerve or change course quickly
• avoid or move away from an unpleasant topic
• Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
• Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
• Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
• Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
• Clean; quite; at once.
• To shear.
• To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.
• turn sharply; change direction abruptly
• cause to sheer
• change course suddenly
NOUN:
• a very fine or diaphanous fabric or article
• a sudden deviation from a course, especially by a boat.
• The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
• The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
• A turn or change in a course.
• Shears See Shear.
• any transparent fabric used for making garments
• the upward slope of a ship's lines towards the bow and stern.
ADVERB:
• perpendicularly
• completely; right
• straight up or down without a break
• directly
• steeply
ADJECTIVE:
• utter
• nothing other than; unmitigated (used for emphasis)
• (especially of a cliff or wall) perpendicular or nearly so
• (of a fabric) very thin; diaphanous
• absolute, complete
• complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
• not mixed with extraneous elements
• very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
• so thin as to transmit light
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of very thin texture

Words related to SHEER

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Words that contain SHEER

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How to use SHEER in a sentence

• When finally, through sheer exhaustion, she dropped on the side of the bed, the devil prompted French Charlie to respond in kind.
• I do not know how long I sat thus in sheer, stupid amazement.
• It was sheer good luck the horse came down in Hankey, and not either before or after the houses had been passed.
• The man seeing the effect he had wrought, laughed his triumph, and in sheer brutality passed his light once or twice across her face.
• Each step that he took, with his head and heart in a swirl of intoxicating madness, was an effort behind which he was putting a sheer weight of physical will.
• One laughed from a sheer sense of the completeness of the disaster.
• In the glare of the search-light the fugitive steamer was seen to take a sudden sheer, that a minute later was followed by a crash, and then she remained motionless.
• By main force they thrust into the middle of the entrance to the bridge and checked the panic with sheer personal determination.
• Little by little Pete began to realize that his present as well as his future welfare depended on caution quite as much as upon sheer courage.
• He grappled like a giant with the rooted obstacles that strewed his path, flinging them hither and thither by sheer force of will.
• It may win praise by its possession of the mere externals of literature, by sheer style.
• At last, in sheer despair, I had what is called a happy thought.
• These people, however, fall through sheer ignorance into a confusion of thought.
• The difference between sheer eating, and eating with tact and intelligence, is so apparent as to need no explanation.
• After the spread, Hollanden navigated various parties around to where they could hear the great hollow roar of the falls beating against the sheer rocks.
• Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
• What he wanted he had always taken, by the sheer strength that was in him.
• Her eyes sparkled at the sight of gold, but the poor woman would have assisted them out of sheer pity.
• By sheer force of routine, David picked up a receiver and placed it to his ear.
• Suddenly, as though endowed with a fiendish intelligence, the blazing fabric took a sheer to port, and headed for the skiff.
• Seven suitors vie with each other for the love of a beautiful girl, and she subjects them to a test that is full of mystery, magic and sheer amusement.
• Just because this happened, and because a tire presently burst in sheer sympathy, we travelled in the beginning of sunset, which was divine.
• It takes a little time to get things into proper shape, but once it is going, the work is very absorbing and sheer delight.
• A continued fire was kept up for upwards of five hours, when they found it absolutely necessary to sheer off, in order to secure their masts.

Similar words containing SHE without suffix er

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