thereby

1. 1.

   by that means or because of that

   “He knocked over the red wine, thereby ruining the table cloth”

Questions about thereby

What does thereby mean?

thereby means "by that means or because of that".

How many syllables are in thereby?

thereby has 2 syllables: thereb-y. The stress falls on "thereb". In IPA it is /ˈðɛɹˈbaɪ/.

Is thereby a common word?

thereby is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 thereby?

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