Definitions for refer

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refer re·fer

Spelling: [ri-fur]

IPA: /rɪˈfɜr/

Refer is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in refer (eefrr).

Definitions for refer

verb (used with object)

1. to direct for information or anything required:
2. to direct the attention or thoughts of:
3. to hand over or submit for information, consideration, decision, etc.:
4. to assign to a class, period, etc.; regard as belonging or related.
5. to have relation; relate; apply.

verb (used without object)

1. to direct attention, as a reference mark does.
2. to have recourse or resort; turn, as for aid or information:
3. to make reference or allusion:

Origin of refer

1325-75; Middle English referren Latin referre to bring back, equivalent to re- re- + ferre to bring, bear¹

Examples for refer

His acolytes, some of whom refer to themselves as “health freedom fighters” are undeterred by this sort of jealous shoptalk.

I refer, of course, to man's mastery over the latent forces of Nature.

At the end of it, he asked, "Did you--you must excuse me--refer to me at all?"

Panicked, I reached out to hoarding experts, who often refer to any kind of obsessive digital collecting as “infomania.”

Cyrus worries so about it (of course we know what you refer to).

One thing I do to respect the people who want to keep hip hop ‘sacred’ is refer to myself as rap-cabaret.

How am I supposed to refer to a person of the opposite sex whom I am not married to but who is, well, “special”?

To Alec Haskell I shall in this discourse again have occasion to refer.

Those who desire information of the most undoubted, must refer to his pages.

You refer to a car accident you were in as a kind of spark for you to get back into acting.