Show

/ʃəʊ/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
2. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
3. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
4. (transitive) To guide or escort.
5. (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
6. (intransitive, copulative, archaic) To appear, look (a certain way)
7. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
8. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.

Example Sentences

The car's dull finish showed years of neglect.

All he had to show for four years of attendance at college was a framed piece of paper.

I do some sculpturing, but I don't like to show anybody.

Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.

to show mercy; to show favour

(dialectal) show me the salt please

2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns A report this year in the Journal of Geophysical Research showed that the glacier has lost 60 percent of its mass.

He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.

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