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View synonyms for shown

shown

[ shohn ]

verb

  1. a past participle of show.


shown

/ ʃəʊn /

verb

  1. See show
    a past participle of show


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  • un·shown adjective
  • well-shown adjective

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Example Sentences

In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

Annie Lee Cooper, well played by Winfrey, is shown trying but failing to register to vote.

Indeed, history has shown us just how much of a threat schlocky Hollywood entertainment is to totalitarian governments.

This short, shown between longer shows on the network and released online, is all of that and more.

But the Chinese have shown little interest, of late, in corralling its own hackers—let alone those from another country.

Instead of giving you a chance to say, "He has made a mistake," he forced you to say, "He has shown how to get out of a mistake."

More foolish, more culpable weakness was never shown than in thus yielding to these schemes.

Hydrogen sulphid is easily prepared in the simple apparatus shown in Fig. 30.

This was shown at the Paris Salon, 1889, and missed the gold medal by two votes.

The period of five years of war has shown it to us in a clearer light than fifty years of peace.

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