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To show or illustrate by example.

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Broader term 10

Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Dilate 76% connected

To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by inc…

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Elaborate 76% connected

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…

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Embody 76% connected

To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatis…

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Enlarge 76% connected

To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.

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Expand 76% connected

To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

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Expatiate 76% connected

To range at large, or without restraint.

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Expound 76% connected

To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.

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Lucubrate 76% connected

To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.

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Personify 76% connected

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

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Derivationally related 12

Example 74% connected

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

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Example 74% connected

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

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Exemplar 74% connected

A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.

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Exemplar 74% connected

A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.

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Exemplification 74% connected

The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.

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Exemplification 74% connected

The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.

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Instance 74% connected

The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.

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Instance 74% connected

The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.

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Model 74% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Model 74% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Typification 74% connected

The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.

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Typification 74% connected

The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.

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Synonym 3

Illustrate 92% connected

To make clear, bright, or luminous.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Instance 92% connected

The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Represent 92% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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