shew

[ shoh ]

/ ʃoʊ /

Archaic.

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verb (used with or without object), noun shewed, shewn, shew·ing,

an archaic spelling of show.

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How to use shew in a sentence

Barry showed me his room—a one bedroom with a killer view of Riverbank State Park and the Hudson.
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Everyone showed lots of skin and courtship perfumed the air.
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When the police showed up, it was the property owners who were arrested.
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Another picture showed him surrounded by a dozen or so fighters—some masked and others laughing.
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And Asians also showed a shift toward the GOP in the mid-terms.
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Vain also was the valour and ability he showed in the campaign against the Royalists in La Vende.
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Charred beams and blackened walls showed stark and gaunt in the glow of a smoldering mass of wreckage.
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At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.
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And sure enough when Sunday came, and the pencil was restored to him, he promptly showed nurse his picture.
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The little boy of two, often quoted here, showed a punctilious feeling for order in the placing of things.
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British Dictionary definitions for shew

shew

/ (ʃəʊ) /

verb shews, shewing, shewed, shewn (ʃəʊn) or shewed

an archaic spelling of show

Derived forms of shew

shewer, noun

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