- 4. Severity, sarcasm, satire, pungency.
- 5. Poignancy, intensity, painfulness, keenness, pungency, severity, afflictiveness.
- 6. Fierceness, violence, ardor.
- 7. Shrillness, highness.
- 8. Eagerness, keenness.
- 9. Keenness, severity.
Sharp-set, a. Eager, hungry, ravenous, famishing.
Sharp-shooter, n. Good marksman, rifleman.
Sharp-sighted, a. Keen, keen-eyed, keen-sighted, clear-sighted.
Sharp-witted, a. Acute, shrewd, quick, sharp, discerning, sagacious, ingenious, intelligent, keen, clear- sighted, keen-sighted, long-headed, cunning.
Shatter, v. a.
- 1. Shiver, break in pieces, dash into fragments, rend, crack, split.
- 2. Disorder, derange, overthrow, break up, render unsound.
Shatter-brain, n. Scatter-brain, giddy person.
Shatter-brained, a. Giddy, light-headed, scatter-brained, inattentive, heedless, wild.
Shave, v. a.
- 1. Cut off (close to the surface).
- 2. Make smooth or bare (as by cutting off hair closely), to pare close.
- 3. Slice, cut in thin slices.
- 4. Strip, fleece, pillage, shear, oppress (by extortion).
- 5. Graze, skim, touch lightly (in passing over).