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  • 111show up — verb Date: 1826 transitive verb 1. to expose or discredit especially by revealing faults < showed them up as frauds > 2. to embarrass or cause to look bad especially by comparison < trying to show up the boss > 3. reveal < showed up my ignorance&#8230; …

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  • 112show-me — /shoh mee /, adj. demanding proof or evidence before being convinced: a show me attitude toward new ideas. [1905 10, Amer.] * * * …

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  • 113show to — phr verb Show to is used with these nouns as the object: ↑place …

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  • 114show up — phr verb Show up is used with these nouns as the object: ↑imperfection …

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  • 115-show — one man show …

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  • 116show — I Naija (Nigerian Pidgin) meet up with me II Gullah Words show, shows, showed, showing …

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  • 117show'um — Gullah Words show, shows, showed, showing him, her, it, them …

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  • 118show up — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. appear, arrive; eclipse, overshadow, put to shame. See appearance, superiority. II (Roget s IV) 1. [To arrive] Syn. appear, come, turn up; see arrive 1 . 2. [To expose] Syn. discredit, worst,&#8230; …

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  • 119show — [OE] Show originally meant ‘look at’. Its modern senses – basically ‘cause to look at’ – did not begin to develop until the early Middle English period. It comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *skauwōjan, whose German descendant schauen still&#8230; …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 120show in — bring in, show someone the way in …

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