shew

Other forms of shew

past tense or participle

shewn

present participle

shewing·

third person

shews·

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.

Questions about shew

What does shew mean?

shew means "establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment".

How many syllables are in shew?

shew has 1 syllable: shew. In IPA it is /ˈʃu/.

What is another word for shew?

Close synonyms include prove, demonstrate, establish, show. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shew a common word?

shew is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with shew?

7 words rhyme with shew. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.