Usually means: Show or prove by example.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word demonstrate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. demonstrate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. demonstrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demonstrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. demonstrate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. demonstrate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Demonstrate, demonstrate: Wordnik
  7. demonstrate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. demonstrate: Wiktionary
  9. demonstrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. demonstrate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. demonstrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. demonstrate: Dictionary.com
  13. demonstrate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Demonstrate (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Demonstrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. demonstrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. demonstrate: Rhymezone
  18. demonstrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. demonstrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. demonstrate: Free Dictionary
  21. demonstrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. demonstrate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. demonstrate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. demonstrate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. demonstrate: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demonstrate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demonstrate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demonstrate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) to show how to use (something).
▸ verb:  to show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) to participate in or organize a demonstration.
▸ verb:  (transitive) to show, display, or present; to prove or make evident

Similar:
demo, evidence, certify, manifest, prove, attest, present, tell, establish, ascertain, more...

Opposite:
conceal, hide, obscure, cover, mask

Types:
show, illustrate, describe, explain, descant, discourse, discourse on, expound, more...

Phrases:
to demonstrate, demonstrate decisively, demonstrate beyond doubt, demonstrate to be so, demonstrate clearly, more...

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Similar:
demo, evidence, certify, manifest, prove, attest, present, tell, establish, ascertain, more...

Opposite:
conceal, hide, obscure, cover, mask

Types:
show, illustrate, describe, explain, descant, discourse, discourse on, expound, more...

Phrases:
to demonstrate, demonstrate decisively, demonstrate beyond doubt, demonstrate to be so, demonstrate clearly, opposite of demonstrate, demonstrate to be true, to demonstrate something, demonstrate humanity, more...

Colors:
    blue,     red,     yellow,     green,     orange,     purple,     black,     white,     gray,     brown



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