شَرٌّ شِمِرٌّ ذ Severe evil. (S, O, K.) It is said in a prov., أَلْجَأَهُ الخَوْفُ إِِلَى شَرٍّ شِمِرٍّ, (TA,) or أَجَآءَهُ, (so in a copy of the A,) [Fear compelled him to betake himself to that which was a severe evil:] i. e. he feared an evil, and fear reduced him to a greater evil. (A.)
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