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Showed

Show \Show\, v. t. [imp. Showed; p. p. Shownor Showed; p. pr. & vb. n. Showing. It is sometimes written shew, shewed, shewn, shewing.] [OE. schowen, shewen, schewen, shawen, AS. sce['a]wian, to look, see, view; akin to OS. scaw?n, OFries. skawia, D. schouwen, OHG. scouw?n, G. schauen, Dan. skue, Sw. sk?da, Icel. sko?a, Goth. usskawjan to waken, skuggwa a mirror, Icel. skuggy shade, shadow, L. cavere to be on one's guard, Gr. ??? to mark, perceive, hear, Skr. kavi wise. Cf. Caution, Scavenger, Sheen.]

  1. To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).

    Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest.
    --Matt. viii. 4.

    Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more?
    --Milton.

  2. To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.

    Shew them the way wherein they must walk.
    --Ex. xviii. 20.

    If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away.
    --1 Sam. xx. 1

  3. 3. Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.

  4. To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.

    I 'll show my duty by my timely care.
    --Dryden.

  5. To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.

    Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me.
    --Ex. xx.

  6. To show forth, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim.

    To show his paces, to exhibit the gait, speed, or the like; -- said especially of a horse.

    To show off, to exhibit ostentatiously.

    To show up, to expose. [Colloq.]

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showed

vb. 1 (en-simple past of: show) 2 (past participle of show English) (alternative to shown)

Usage examples of "showed".

The display panel now showed a row of beds in a large room walled in iron bars.

The sun was well aloft on what promised to be a clear spring day when he swung down from the carriage at Hamsford station, where the clock seen through the open double doors showed 7:59: one minute early.

Perhaps the most spectacular picture showed the plump woman with five male organs penetrating her at once: two vaginally, one rectally and two orally.

So he showed us this ring and said it would belong to the first one who finished the trick -- and that we could take the ring outside if we wanted!

Amelia was disappointed, she told me later, that I showed none of the absolute astonishment she expected.

His face -- any of their faces -- seldom shows emotion of any kind, but now he showed surprise.

It showed the strange woman taking succour from a blue nipple while several men converged in her lower body.

Mealy showed up in my office Thursday morning, just about two days ago, to report that Laurie was missing.

The record showed that a woman of her name and description had been arrested thirteen times in ten years for solicitation, yet her appearance was that of a fresh young girl of about seventeen.

It showed two modestly dressed men standing before a dingy, brown brick facade.

It showed George, Jane and Thorntis standing in the white before the blue Earth gate.

The wall showed her again: plump, fully breasted, short haired under a golden circlet.

They responded with the appearance of disdain until Doris showed them something in the front of her dress.

She showed me into an adjoining room with strange fixtures about waist high around all four blue walls.

I played with them in the manner that you must know, discovering many fascinating things about them which showed that, indeed, they are not human.