shown

[ shohn ]

/ ʃoʊn /

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verb

a past participle of show.

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OTHER WORDS FROM shown

un·shown, adjectivewell-shown, adjective

Words nearby shown

showjumping, showman, showmanship, show-me, Show Me State, shown, show-off, show of hands, show one's colors, show one's face, show one's hand

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How to use shown in a sentence

In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
'Babylon' Review: The Dumb Lives of Trigger-Happy Cops|Melissa Leon|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Annie Lee Cooper, well played by Winfrey, is shown trying but failing to register to vote.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’|Gary May|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Indeed, history has shown us just how much of a threat schlocky Hollywood entertainment is to totalitarian governments.
North Korea’s Secret Movie Bootleggers: How Western Films Make It Into the Hermit Kingdom|Lizzie Crocker|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This short, shown between longer shows on the network and released online, is all of that and more.
Star Wars Christmas Lights, Unedited Footage of a Bear, and More Viral Videos|The Daily Beast Video|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

But the Chinese have shown little interest, of late, in corralling its own hackers—let alone those from another country.
Obama Could Hit China to Punish North Korea|Shane Harris, Tim Mak|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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."
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
More foolish, more culpable weakness was never shown than in thus yielding to these schemes.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
Hydrogen sulphid is easily prepared in the simple apparatus shown in Fig. 30.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
This was shown at the Paris Salon, 1889, and missed the gold medal by two votes.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
The period of five years of war has shown it to us in a clearer light than fifty years of peace.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock

British Dictionary definitions for shown

shown

/ (ʃəʊn) /

verb

a past participle of show

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