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Another word for demonstrate

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Verb

  1. To make manifest or apparent

      1. To cause or allow to be seen; display:
      2. To display for sale, in exhibition, or in competition:
      3. To permit access to (a house, for example) when offering for sale or rent.
      1. To make known (something concealed or unknown):
      2. To cause to be seen; show:
      3. To make known by supernatural or divine means:
      1. To announce officially and publicly; declare:
      2. To state emphatically or authoritatively; affirm:
      3. To indicate conspicuously; make plain:
      1. Clearly apparent to the sight or understanding; obvious.
      2. To show or demonstrate plainly; reveal:
      3. To record in a ship's manifest.
      1. To show outwardly; display:
      2. To present for others to see:
      3. To present in a public exhibition or contest:
      1. To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest:
      1. A thing or set of things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment:
      2. Something indicative; an indication or set of indications:
      3. The means by which an allegation may be proven, such as oral testimony, documents, or physical objects.
      1. To present to view; cause to be seen.
      2. To exhibit ostentatiously; show off:
      3. To show (images or information) on a screen.
    See also:

    show

  2. To establish as true or genuine

      1. To demonstrate the truth or accuracy of, as by the presentation of evidence:
      2. To attest to the truth of (something) formally or under oath.
      3. To make a formal verification in support of (a pleading).
      1. To establish the soundness, accuracy, or legitimacy of:
      2. To declare or make legally valid:
      3. To mark with an indication of official sanction:
      1. To prove the truth of or support with proof or evidence:
      2. To give substance to; make real or actual.
      1. To cause or allow to be seen; display:
      2. To display for sale, in exhibition, or in competition:
      3. To permit access to (a house, for example) when offering for sale or rent.
      1. To establish the truth or validity of (something) by the presentation of argument or evidence:
      2. To demonstrate the reality of (something):
      3. To show (oneself) to be what is specified or to have a certain characteristic:
      1. A thing or set of things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment:
      2. Something indicative; an indication or set of indications:
      3. The means by which an allegation may be proven, such as oral testimony, documents, or physical objects.
      1. To cause (an institution, for example) to come into existence or begin operating; found; set up.
      2. To bring about; generate or effect:
      3. To place or settle in a secure position or condition:
      1. To express approval of or give support to, especially by public statement; sanction:
      2. To recommend (a product), often in exchange for payment, as in an advertisement.
      3. To write one's signature on the back of (a check) to obtain the amount payable or to make the amount payable available to a third party or to the bearer.
      1. To strengthen or support with other evidence; make more certain.
      1. To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify:
      2. To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).
      3. To make firmer; strengthen:
      1. To establish the authenticity of; prove genuine:
    See also:

    support

    show

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Another word for demonstrate

Verb

  1. To prove

    See also:

    prove

  2. To explain

    See also:

    explain

    describe

  3. To present for effect

    See also:

    display

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Sentence Examples

  • I tried to demonstrate the panic I felt.

  • Though we may allow that the results obtained by Rumford and Davy demonstrate satisfactorily that heat is in some way due to motion, yet they do not tell us to what particular dynamical quantity heat corresponds.

  • So long as the Neoplatonic influence remained strong, attempts were still made to demonstrate the doctrine of the Trinity, chiefly in a mystical sense as in Erigena, but also by orthodox churchmen like Anselm.

  • Events were soon to demonstrate the baselessness of these hopes.

  • I offer these stories not to demonstrate that people can be cruel.

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