sheered
SaySHEERDUS/ʃɪɚd/UK/ˈʃɪəd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of sheer.
The ship sheered off course as the gale slammed into its side.
Startled by the gunshot, the deer sheered into the dense underbrush.
Note
One spelling does double duty: the ship sheered (simple past) and the ship had sheered (past participle after have). It belongs only to the swerving verb, since the adjective sheer, meaning thin, pure or utter, has no past form. In older writing, though, sheer was also a spelling of shear, so sheered there may mean cut or clipped rather than turned aside. Context tells the two apart.
sheered is a form of sheer
sheer, verb: To swerve away from a set course, as a ship. Full entry
- Spelling
- sheer → sheered: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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