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2 shine, spread, scatter, throw, cast, let fall, impart,
release, focus, pour forth, let fall, radiate: Can you shed a
little light on a matter that has puzzled me for years? 3 pour
or stream or flow or surge or spill (out or forth), discharge,
emanate, emit, drop; exude, ooze, weep: The clouds shed their
snow and the world below turned white. Don't shed any tears over
me. 4 cast off, doff, drop, abandon; moult, defoliate,
desquamate, peel (off), flake (off): The trees shed their
leaves. She rushed into the bathroom, shedding her clothes as
she went.
sheen n. shine, gleam, polish, lustre, shininess, burnish,
brightness, gloss, glow, glimmer, shimmer, radiance, glint,
dazzle: The sheen of the horse's coat glistened in the
sunlight.
sheepish adj. 1 timid, withdrawn, passive, docile, obedient, compliant,
sheeplike, manipulable, tractable, pliable, meek, amenable:
Dashworth might seem sheepish but he doesn't like to be bullied.
2 See shamefaced, above.
sheer adj. 1 steep, precipitous, abrupt, perpendicular, bluff,
vertical: There is a sheer drop of 2000 feet to the valley
below. 2 absolute, unmitigated, unqualified, downright,
out-and-out, unalloyed, unadulterated, pure, unmixed, plain,
simple, rank, total, complete, arrant, thorough, thoroughgoing,
utter: Johnson said that he had got his definition of 'pastern'
wrong out of 'sheer ignorance'. 3 transparent, see-through,
thin, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, translucent, peekaboo:
Kathryn was wearing the sheer nightgown he had given her for her
birthday.
sheet n. 1 bed-sheet, crib-sheet, fitted sheet, flat sheet, US
contour sheet: How often do you change the sheets on your bed?
2 leaf, folio, page: He tore a sheet of paper from the
notebook. 3 pane, panel, plate, slab: The desk has a sheet of
glass on top for protection. 4 lamina, lamination, layer,
stratum, veneer, membrane: Plywood is made up of a number of
thin sheets of pressed wood bonded together for strength. 5
area, expanse, stretch, layer, film, coat, coating, covering,
blanket, cover, surface, skin, veneer: The sheet of ice on the
road made driving hazardous. 6 newspaper, journal, paper,
tabloid, gazette, daily, weekly, monthly, Colloq rag: Have you