Main entry: sheer
Definition: cause to sheer
Usage: She sheered her car around the obstacle
Main entry: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, veer, trend, swerve
Definition: turn sharply; change direction abruptly
Usage: The car cut to the left at the intersection; The motorbike veered to the right
Main entry: absolute, out-and-out, sheer, rank, right-down, downright
Definition: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
Usage: 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
Main entry: sheer, bluff, bold
Definition: very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
Usage: a bluff headland; where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise; a sheer descent of rock
Main entry: plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed
Definition: not mixed with extraneous elements
Usage: plain water; sheer wine; not an unmixed blessing
Main entry: diaphanous, gossamer, vaporous, vapourous, transparent, cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, sheer
Definition: so thin as to transmit light
Usage: 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
Main entry: sheer
Definition: directly
Usage: he fell sheer into the water
Main entry: sheer, perpendicularly
Definition: straight up or down without a break