MEANING
to show something clearly through evidence, reasoning, examples, or practical action
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Words that belong together
- demonstrate a relationship
- demonstrate effectiveness
- demonstrate how
On the page
The experiment demonstrates that the material expands when heated.
The instructor demonstrated how to classify the sources.
These cases demonstrate the limits of the proposed rule.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- demonstrate / demonstrates
- Past tense
- demonstrated
- Past participle
- demonstrated
- Present participle
- demonstrating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- demonstrate / demonstrates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are demonstrating
- Present perfect
- have/has demonstrated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been demonstrating
- Past
- demonstrated
- Past continuous
- was/were demonstrating
- Past perfect
- had demonstrated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been demonstrating
- Future
- will demonstrate / demonstrates
- Future continuous
- will be demonstrating
- Future perfect
- will have demonstrated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been demonstrating
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Usage notes
Primary curation section: Academic. In argumentation, stronger than merely assert. A demonstration's force depends on the evidence or procedure; it need not mean mathematical proof. demonstrate; demonstrates; demonstrated; demonstrated; demonstrating. Related noun: demonstration.
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