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📖 Определения и значения для слова sheer

📒 used to emphasize the size, degree or amount of something

  • The area is under threat from the sheer number of tourists using it.
  • We were impressed by the sheer size of the cathedral.

📒 complete and not mixed with anything else

  • The concert was sheer delight.
  • sheer luck/chance/coincidence/joy/bliss/determination
  • I only agreed out of sheer desperation.

📒 very steep

  • sheer cliffs/slopes
  • Outside there was a sheer drop down to the sea below.

📒 thin, light and almost transparent

  • sheer nylon
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