Definitions for demonstrate

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demonstrate dem·on·strate

Spelling: [dem-uh n-streyt]

IPA: /ˈdɛm ənˌstreɪt/

Demonstrate is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1379 anagrams from letters in demonstrate (adeemnorstt).

Definitions for demonstrate

verb (used with object)

1. to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove:
2. to describe, explain, or illustrate by examples, specimens, experiments, or the like:
3. to manifest or exhibit; show:
4. to display openly or publicly, as feelings:
5. to exhibit the operation or use of (a device, process, product, or the like), usually to a purchaser or prospect:

verb (used without object)

1. to make, give, or take part in, a demonstration:
2. Military. to attack or make a show of force to deceive an enemy.

Origin of demonstrate

1545-55; Latin dēmonstrātus, past participle of dēmonstrāre to show, point out, equivalent to dē- de- + monstrāre to show, verbal derivative of monstrum sign, portent

Examples for demonstrate

A classroom experiment seeks to demonstrate what it looks like.

For the Democrats to win as the Government Party, activist government must demonstrate that it both works and is trustworthy.

He was trying, I think, to demonstrate balance and equivalence.

Anyone else can demonstrate it who chooses to make the experiment.

We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood.

At all events, it is as impossible to demonstrate the non-existence of the one unit as the other.

One day, he took a monk with a cleanly shaven head and had him walk around a light bulb to demonstrate this theory.

You want to demonstrate that you are superior, and you cannot do it.

Over the course of the year, Klaus would repeatedly, through word and deed, demonstrate his sympathies with Putin.

So much for the first point which I wished to explain and demonstrate.