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exemplify - 18 thesaurus results
Main Entry: exemplify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: serve as an example
Synonyms: body, cite, clarify, clear up, demonstrate, depict, display, elucidate, embody, enlighten, epitomize, evidence, exhibit, illuminate, illustrate, instance, manifest, mirror, personify, quote, represent, show, spell out, symbolize, typify, emblematize
Main Entry: describe
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: explain in speech, writing
Synonyms: call, characterize, chronicle, communicate, construe, define, delineate, depict, detail, distinguish, draw, elucidate, epitomize, exemplify, explicate, expound, express, illuminate, illustrate, image, impart, interpret, label, limn, name, narrate, outline, paint, picture, portray, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, represent, sketch, specify, state, tell, term, trace, transmit, convey image, make apparent, make clear, make sense of, make vivid, mark out, particularize, write up
Antonyms: confuse, misrepresent, mix up
Main Entry: elucidate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: explain in detail
Synonyms: annotate, clarify, clear, clear up, decode, demonstrate, enlighten, exemplify, explicate, expound, get across*, gloss, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, prove, spell out*, unfold, draw a picture, make perfectly clear, make plain, make see daylight, shed light on, throw light on
Antonyms: confuse, distract, mix up, mystify, obscure, be vague, make ambiguous
Main Entry: expound
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: talk about in great detail
Synonyms: clarify, comment, construe, delineate, describe, discourse, elucidate, exemplify, explain, explicate, express, illustrate, interpret, present, spell out, state, unfold, enucleate, set forth
Main Entry: instance
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: name
Synonyms: adduce, cite, exemplify, illustrate, mention, quote, refer, show, specify
Main Entry: interpret
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make sense of; define
Synonyms: adapt, annotate, clarify, comment, construe, decipher, decode, delineate, depict, describe, elucidate, enact, exemplify, explain, explicate, expound, gather, gloss, illustrate, image, improvise, limn, mimic, paraphrase, perform, picture, play, portray, read, render, represent, solve, spell out, take*, translate, understand, view, commentate, make of, reenact, throw light on
Antonyms: misinterpret, misunderstand
Main Entry: mirror
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: copy, reflect
Synonyms: depict, double, echo, embody, emulate, epitomize, exemplify, follow, glass, illustrate, image, imitate, mimic, personify, represent, show, simulate, symbolize, take off*, typify, act like, make like
Main Entry: personify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: represent some other being, character
Synonyms: contain, copy, embody, epitomize, exemplify, express, humanize, illustrate, image, imitate, impersonate, incarnate, manifest, materialize, mirror, objectify, substantiate, symbolize, typify, act out, body forth, emblematize, exteriorize, externalize, hominify, live as, make human, personize
Main Entry: stand for
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: signify, mean
Synonyms: answer for, betoken, denote, exemplify, imply, indicate, represent, suggest, symbol, symbolize, appear for
Main Entry: symbolize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: represent; stand for
Synonyms: betoken, connote, denote, embody, epitomize, exemplify, express, illustrate, indicate, mean, mirror, personify, show, signify, suggest, symbol, typify, body forth, emblematize
Main Entry: typify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: represent, characterize
Synonyms: describe, embody, epitomize, exemplify, feature, illustrate, incarnate, mean, mirror, model, personify, stand for, sum up, symbolize, body forth, emblematize
Main Entry: cite
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: note, quote
Synonyms: adduce, advance, allege, enumerate, evidence, excerpt, exemplify, extract, indicate, instance, lay, mention, name, number, offer, point out, present, recite, recount, reference, rehearse, remember, reminisce, repeat, specify, spell out, tell, allude to, appeal to, get down to brass tacks, give as example, illustrate with, refer to
Notes: cite means to make reference to, refer to; sight is the ability to see, the act of looking or seeing or observing, something worth seeing; site is the piece of land on which something is located or is to be located
Main Entry: define
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give description
Synonyms: ascertain, assign, characterize, construe, decide, delineate, denote, describe, designate, detail, determine, dub, elucidate, entitle, etch, exemplify, explain, expound, illustrate, interpret, label, name, prescribe, represent, specify, spell out, tag, translate, call a spade a spade, denominate, formalize, lay it out, nail it down
Antonyms: confuse, distort, tangle, twist
Main Entry: embody
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: represent; materialize
Synonyms: actualize, complete, demonstrate, epitomize, evince, exemplify, exhibit, express, illustrate, incarnate, incorporate, manifest, mirror, objectify, personify, realize, show, stand for, substantiate, symbolize, typify, concretize, emblematize, exteriorize, externalize, hypostatize, personalize, reify
Antonyms: exclude, disembody
Main Entry: epitomize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: typify
Synonyms: characterize, embody, exemplify, illustrate, mean, model, personify, represent, stand for, symbolize
Main Entry: refer
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mention
Synonyms: accredit, adduce, advert, allude, ascribe, assign, associate, attribute, bring up, charge, cite, credit, designate, excerpt, exemplify, extract, glance, hint, impute, indicate, insert, instance, interpolate, introduce, invoke, lay, name, notice, point, point out, quote, specify, direct attention, give as example, make allusion, make mention of, make reference, put down to, speak about, speak of, touch on
Main Entry: represent
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: present image of; symbolize
Synonyms: be, betoken, body, copy, embody, enact, epitomize, equal, equate, exemplify, exhibit, express, factor, imitate, impersonate, mean, perform, personify, produce, put on, reproduce, serve, show, stage, stand for, steward, substitute, typify, act as, act as broker, act for, act in place of, appear as, assume the role of, be agent for, be attorney for, be proxy for, buy for, correspond to, do business for, emblematize, hold office, play the part, sell for, serve as, speak for
Main Entry: mark
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: characterize
Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, brand, check off, demonstrate, denote, designate, distinguish, earmark, evidence, evince, exemplify, exhibit, feature, identify, illustrate, indicate, label, manifest, point out, proclaim, qualify, remark, show, show up, signify, stamp, individualize, individuate, mark off, ostend, point up*, set apart, signalize, singularize, stake out
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