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    sheer
    [SHir]
    adjective
    sheer (adjective)
    sheerer (comparative adjective)
    sheerest (superlative adjective)
    1. nothing other than; unmitigated (used for emphasis):
      "she giggled with sheer delight"
      "marriage is sheer hard work"
      • (especially of a cliff or wall) perpendicular or nearly so:
        "the sheer ice walls"
        • (of a fabric) very thin; diaphanous:
          "sheer white silk chiffon"
          adverb
          sheer (adverb)
          1. perpendicularly:
            "the ridge fell sheer, in steep crags"
            • archaic
              completely; right:
              "she went sheer forward when the door was open"
              noun
              sheer (noun)
              sheers (plural noun)
              1. a very fine or diaphanous fabric or article:
                "I put up the new curtains and sheers"
                "she ditched her glossy sheers while pregnant"
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                adjective
                SHir
                Tone

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                Origin
                Middle English (in the sense ‘exempt, cleared’): probably an alteration of dialect shire ‘pure, clear’, from the Germanic base of the verb shine. In the mid 16th century the word was used to describe clear, pure water, and also in sheer.
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