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say it: ruh-FUR
refer is a verb meaning "make reference to". It carries 7 recorded senses.
think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another
“This plant can be referred to a known species”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for refer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.