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sheen<br />

2 shine, spread, scatter, throw, cast, let fall, impart,<br />

release, focus, pour forth, let fall, radiate: Can you shed a<br />

little light on a matter that has puzzled me for years? 3 pour<br />

or stream or flow or surge or spill (out or forth), discharge,<br />

emanate, emit, drop; exude, ooze, weep: The clouds shed their<br />

snow and the world below turned white. Don't shed any tears over<br />

me. 4 cast off, doff, drop, abandon; moult, defoliate,<br />

desquamate, peel (off), flake (off): The trees shed their<br />

leaves. She rushed into the bathroom, shedding her clothes as<br />

she went.<br />

n. shine, gleam, polish, lustre, shininess, burnish,<br />

brightness, gloss, glow, glimmer, shimmer, radiance, glint,<br />

dazzle: The sheen of the horse's coat glistened in the<br />

sunlight.<br />

sheepish adj. 1 timid, withdrawn, passive, docile, obedient, compliant,<br />

sheeplike, manipulable, tractable, pliable, meek, amenable:<br />

Dashworth might seem sheepish but he doesn't like to be bullied.<br />

2 See shamefaced, above.<br />

sheer<br />

adj. 1 steep, precipitous, abrupt, perpendicular, bluff,<br />

vertical: There is a sheer drop of 2000 feet to the valley<br />

below. 2 absolute, unmitigated, unqualified, downright,<br />

out-and-out, unalloyed, unadulterated, pure, unmixed, plain,<br />

simple, rank, total, complete, arrant, thorough, thoroughgoing,<br />

utter: Johnson said that he had got his definition of 'pastern'<br />

wrong out of 'sheer ignorance'. 3 transparent, see-through,<br />

thin, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, translucent, peekaboo:<br />

Kathryn was wearing the sheer nightgown he had given her for her<br />

birthday.<br />

sheet<br />

n. 1 bed-sheet, crib-sheet, fitted sheet, flat sheet, US<br />

contour sheet: How often do you change the sheets on your bed?<br />

2 leaf, folio, page: He tore a sheet of paper from the<br />

notebook. 3 pane, panel, plate, slab: The desk has a sheet of<br />

glass on top for protection. 4 lamina, lamination, layer,<br />

stratum, veneer, membrane: Plywood is made up of a number of<br />

thin sheets of pressed wood bonded together for strength. 5<br />

area, expanse, stretch, layer, film, coat, coating, covering,<br />

blanket, cover, surface, skin, veneer: The sheet of ice on the<br />

road made driving hazardous. 6 newspaper, journal, paper,<br />

tabloid, gazette, daily, weekly, monthly, Colloq rag: Have you

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